Konso - KGA10: 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 - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. oldowayensis
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758
ETE occurrence; species: Hippopotamus/Hexaprotodon
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Bovidae
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Pallas 1766)
Tragelaphus cf. scriptus (Pallas 1766)
Bovini indet. Gray 1821
ETE occurrence; species: Bovini
Reduncini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1907
ETE occurrence; species: Reduncini
Kobus sp. Smith 1840
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876
ETE occurrence; species: Alcelaphini
Parmularius augusticornis
Connochaetes sp. (Lichtenstein 1812)
Hippotragus sp. Sundevall 1845
Damaliscus niro (Hopwood 1936)
original and current combination Hippotragus niro
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
Mammalia - Suidae
Metridiochoerus hopwoodi Leakey 1958
originally entered as "Metridochoerus hopwoodi"
Metridiochoerus compactus Van Hoepen and Van Hoepen 1932
originally entered as "Metridochoerus compactus"
Kolpochoerus olduvaiensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Dinofelis aff. piveteaui Ewer 1955
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Homo erectus (Dubois 1892)
Australopithecus boisei Leakey 1959
1 specimen
recombined as Paranthropus boisei
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: or Paranthropus
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papio sp. Erxleben 1777
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia State/province:Ethiopian Rift
Coordinates: 5.3° North, 37.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.2° North, 37.4° East
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Calabrian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*International age/stage:Calabrian - Calabrian
Key time interval:Calabrian
Age range of interval:1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Marker beds,tephrastrat.&Ar/Ar on tuffs" radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy claystone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: with sand, ETE lithology comments: Altern cly&silt/snd lyer.
Environment:alluvial fan
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: alluvial_fan ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Collection size:2400 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 933, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1332, KGA 10, Konso-Gardula 10, Konso - KGA10,
Database number:22499
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:2000-04-12 01:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-25 21:59:02
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]