Omo - member A3: Piacenzian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Nyanzachoerus jaegeri
Coppens 1971
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11 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Leakey 1982
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.3° North, 36.0° 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: | 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "Interbedded silt and sand, fine tuffite, silty clay." | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: Levee and channel deposits. | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 13 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 518, ; ETE museum list: ENM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 852, Omo - member A3, | ||
| Database number: | 22031 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1998-07-01 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1998-07-01 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5282. | ETE 1006 | M. D. Leakey, R. L. Hay, G. Curtis, R. Drake, M. Jackes and T. White. 1978. Fossil hominids from the Laetolil Beds,Tanzania. Geol.background to fossil man,recent research in the Gregory Rift valley,east Africa,W.Bishop(ed.) i-xii:157-170 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |