Hadar - AL.161: Piacenzian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta adaurora Maglio 1970
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: adaurora
Mammalia - Bovidae
cf. Damalops sp. Pilgrim 1939
1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Australopithecus afarensis Johanson et al. 1978
1 specimen
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 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Awash Formation:Hadar Member:Denen Dora
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = TT4 (3.22+-.01ma), Min = KHt (3.175 +-.01ma), single crystal laser dates radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: as lacustrine diminishes, silts, carbonate concretions and rootcasts appear in upper part of member (member description)
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: base=lacustrine, top=fluvial
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:3 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 443, 418, 418, 417, 415, 414, 409, 123, 104, 81, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 586, Hadar - AL.161,
Database number:21768
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1995-09-29 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-10-06 12:35:44
Access level:the public Released:1995-09-29 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4782.ETE 491D. 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]