Middle Awash - Haradaso mbr.: Zanclean, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
ETE occurrence; species: Rodentia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
ETE occurrence; species: Carnivora
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus kenyensis MacInnes 1942
3 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
ETE occurrence; species: Rhinocerotidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hexaprotodon sp. Falconer and Cautley 1836
Mammalia - Giraffidae
cf. Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821
ETE occurrence; species: cf. Giraffidae
Mammalia - Bovidae
Tragelaphus sp. de Blainville 1816
Tragelaphus aff. nakuae Arambourg 1941
Hippotragini indet. Sundevall 1845
ETE occurrence; species: Hippotragini
Mammalia - Suidae
Nyanzachoerus kanamensis Leakey 1958
Mammalia - Sivatheridae
Sivatherium maurusium (Pomel 1893)
original and current combination Libytherium maurusium
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecidae indet. Gray 1821
ETE occurrence; species: Colobinae
Cercopithecidae indet. Gray 1821
ETE occurrence; species: cf. Papionini
Cercopithecus sp. (Linnaeus 1758)
Cercocebus sp. Geoffroy 1812
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 10.5° North, 40.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.2° North, 40.2° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*International age/stage:Zanclian - Zanclian
Key time interval:Zanclean
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Awash Formation:Sagantole Member:Haradaso
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Max age=~4.4 my(LASS bas,tephrostratigraphy date);Min age=3.89+/-.02 (AT-1/VT-1, Ar/Ar&Ca/K dating)" radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "clays, silts, sands, and lignitic shale contgrass&plant rem occur midseq"
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: lake-floodplain seds
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:17 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 85, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 996, Middle Awash - Haradaso mbr.,
Database number:22175
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:1999-04-19 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-25 21:59:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-04-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4442.ETE 74J. 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]