Omo - F.256: Pliocene - Calabrian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Bovidae
Menelikia lyrocera Arambourg 1941
5 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.1° North, 35.9° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene - Quaternary Epoch: Pliocene - Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*International age/stage:Calabrian (minimum)
Key time interval: Pliocene - Calabrian
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 0.774 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:H
Local bed:H-5
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff H, Min = Tuff J (1.65+-.-5ma) radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: interlayered sand and silt, clayey silt, sandy silt
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: nearshore mudflats
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:5 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 414, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 567, Omo - F.256,
Database number:21749
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1997-07-01 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1997-07-01 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]