Middle Awash (Bodo/LB): Early Pliocene, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Anancus sp.
Aymard 1855
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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Elephas cf. recki
Dietrich 1915
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium cf. bozasi
Arambourg 1934
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Parapapio sp.
Jones 1937
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Nyanzachoerus cf. pattersoni
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Sivatherium sp.
Falconer and Cautley 1836
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 10.6° North, 40.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.4° North, 40.2° East |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Tertiary - Quaternary | *Epoch: | Miocene - Pleistocene |
| Key time interval: | Early Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Awash | Formation: | Sagantole | ||
| Local section: | Beearyada & Kalaloo | Local bed: | Beearyada & Kalaloo | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Fauna comparable to that of lower Chemeron fm., Aterir Beds, Lothagan 3, Ekora, Kanapoi, Mursi fm., and Langebaanweg. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified siltstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: grey to tan silts and clays, some green-grey clays, medium-grained lapilli tuffs, siltstone, and a gastropod limestone | |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: channels occur in upper part of sequence | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 8 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 566, 565, 564, 563, 562, 561, 560, 558, 557, 556, 555, 554, 553, 552, 551, 550, 549, 548, 547, 546, 545, 491, ; ETE museum list: ENM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 956, Middle Awash - Bodo, LB, | ||
| Database number: | 22135 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | ||
| Created: | 1999-03-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-05-04 06:37:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-03-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5352. | ETE 1081 | T. D. White. 1986. Cut marks on the Bodo cranium: a case of prehistoric defleshing. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 69:503-509 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |