Omo - L.64: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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| 2 specimens | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Kolpochoerus limnetes
(Hopwood 1926)
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15 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Australopithecus sp.
Dart 1925
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: (non-robust) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.2° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.6° North, 36.0° East (Wright 2013) |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Gelasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| *International age/stage: | Gelasian (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Gelasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 1.8 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: fines up to sandy silt, gray vitric tuff, silt, tuff in D-5-2 labelled R2 previously, upper contact physically modified | |||
| Environment: | fluvial indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: member description | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 20 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 418, 418, 417, 416, 413, 409, 123, 104, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 374, L.86, Omo - L.64, P.332, | ||
| Database number: | 21556 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1997-07-28 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-07-28 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4486. | ETE 121 | C. S. Feibel, F.H. Brown, and I. McDougall. 1989. Stratigraphic Context of Fossil hominids from the Omo Group Deposits: Northern Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 78:595-622 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |