Omo - L.597: Pliocene, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Suidae
1 specimen
Notochoerus euilus (Hopwood 1926)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion libycum Pomel 1897
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: ethiopicum
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.0° North, 35.9° East (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary - Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene - Pliocene
Key time interval: Pliocene Zone:  Olduvai min: zone
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:G
Local bed:G13
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max=Tuff G(1.98+-.10ma),Min=bottom of Olduvai(paleomag) at G26/27 boundary (date is from time-unit table and fraction)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: transistional to lacustrine, silt at top of unit, limonite, reduced clayey silt, black-coated slickensides
Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: trans. fluv-lacust.,cyclic sed ends with this unit
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:6 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 409, 123, 104, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 434, Omo - L.597,
Database number:21616
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1995-06-01 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1995-06-01 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
4768.ETE 477H. B. Wesselman. 1984. The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia. Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution 17 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]