KomOmbo-GSV: Pleistocene, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Bovidae
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Kom Ombo Plain
Coordinates: 24.5° North, 33.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.4° North, 32.9° East
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Quaternary - Quaternary *Epoch:Pleistocene - Pleistocene
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gebel Silsila-YCS Member:Darau
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: No radiocarbon determinations
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: calcitic, ETE lithology comments: sand&silt mixed
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:1 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 482, ; ETE museum list: ROM: Royal Ontario Museum
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1345, Gebel Silsila V, Gabal Silsila V, KomOmbo-GSV,
Database number:22510
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:2000-04-13 01:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-25 21:59:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-04-13 01:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

5225.ETE 937C. S. Churcher and P.E.L. Smith. 1972. Kom Ombo: Preliminary Report on the Fauna of Late Paleolithic Sites in Upper Egypt. Science 177:259-261 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]