Hadar - KH General: Piacenzian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Spalacidae
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Tachyoryctes pliocaenicus
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Parapapio cf. jonesi
Broom 1940
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Australopithecus afarensis
Johanson et al. 1978
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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Hipparion afarense
Eisenmann 1976
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recombined as Eurygnathohippus afarense | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Notochoerus euilus
(Hopwood 1926)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus | ||||||||||
Kolpochoerus afarensis
Cooke 1978
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Damalops sp.
Pilgrim 1939
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Megantereon sp.
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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Homotherium sp.
Fabrini 1890
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Felis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Herpestidae
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Herpestes sp.
Illliger 1811
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium bozasi
Arambourg 1934
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
ETE occurrence; species: shungurensis | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Madoqua avifluminis
(Dietrich 1950)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
original and current combination Praemadoqua avifluminis | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Ethiopia |
Coordinates: | 11.1° North, 40.6° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 11.0° North, 40.4° East |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
*International age/stage: | Piacenzian (minimum) | ||
Key time interval: | Piacenzian | ||
Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Awash | Formation: | Hadar | Member: | Kada Hadar |
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = KHt (3.175+-.01ma), Min = BKT (2,921+-.004ma), single crystal laser dates radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | grading silty claystone | ||
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: cut by sands and conglomerates, thin fining-up and coarsening-up sequences, 2 volcanic events | |||
Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: deltaic conditions to the east |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
Collection size: | 12 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 447, 415, 414, 413, 412, 411, 409, 123, 121, 104, ; ETE museum list: ENM |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 580, Hadar - KH General, | ||
Database number: | 21762 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth |
Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
Created: | 1995-10-23 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-10-23 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
4782. | ETE 491 | D. C. Johanson, M. Splingaer, and N. T. Boaz. 1976. Paleontological excavations in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Basin, 1969-1973. In Y. Coppens, F. C. Howell, G. L. Isaac, R. L. Leakey (eds.), Earliest Man and Environments in the East Rudolf Basin [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] |