Middle Awash - Meadura mbr.: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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| ETE occurrence; species: Rodentia | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Cercopithecus sp.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: Rhinocerotidae | ||||||||||
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Ceratotherium cf. simum
(Burchell 1821)
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: Bovidae | ||||||||||
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Redunca sp.
Smith 1827
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Caprini indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: cf. Caprini | ||||||||||
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Bovini indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: Bovini | ||||||||||
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cf. Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Phacochoerus aethiopicus
(Pallas 1766)
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Kolpochoerus limnetes
(Hopwood 1926)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: recki | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 10.7° North, 40.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.7° North, 40.5° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *International age/stage: | Holocene (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tuff |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "lat var clays, tuffaceous silts, tuffs, sands w/gravel lenses,&ss conglom" | |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: stromatolites | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 13 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 85, ; ETE museum list: ENM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 990, Middle Awash - Meadura mbr., | ||
| Database number: | 22169 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | ||
| Created: | 1999-04-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-05-10 08:13:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-04-19 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4442. | ETE 74 | J. E. Kalb, C. J. Jolly, A. Mebrate, S. Tebedge, C. Smart, E.B. Oswald, D. Cramer, P. Whitehead, C.B. Wood, G.C. Conroy, T. Adefris, L. Sperling, and B. Kana. 1982. Fossil Mammals and Artifacts from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 298:25-29 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] |