Konso - 4W: Gelasian - Calabrian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
ETE occurrence; species: ileretensis
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus oswaldi (Andrews 1916)
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffa sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Bovidae
Damaliscus sp. Sclater and Thomas 1894
Reduncini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1907
ETE occurrence; species: Reduncini
Kobus cf. sigmoidalis Arambourg 1941
Aepyceros sp. Sundevall 1847
Bovini indet. Gray 1821
ETE occurrence; species: Bovini
Mammalia - Suidae
Kolpochoerus olduvaiensis
Kolpochoerus majus (Hopwood 1934)
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758
ETE occurrence; species: Hippopotamus/Hexaprotodon
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. oldowayensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia State/province:Ethiopian Rift
Coordinates: 5.3° North, 37.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.2° North, 37.3° East
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*International age/stage:Gelasian - Calabrian
Key time interval:Gelasian - Calabrian
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Tephra samples:19-91&Tuff T-1 radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Collection size:12 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 921, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1326, KGA 4W, Konso-Gardula 4W, Konso - 4W,
Database number:22493
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:J. Alroy
Created:2000-04-12 01:00:00 Last modified:2007-08-09 12:21:25
Access level:the public Released:2000-04-12 01:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

5627.ETE 1376G. Suwa, B. Aswfaw, Y. Beyene, T. White, S. Katoh, S. Nagaoka, H. Nakaya, K. Uzawa, P. Renne and G. WoldeGabriel. 1997. The first skull of Australopithecus boisei. Nature 389(6650):489-492 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]