Hadar - AL.211: Piacenzian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Bovidae
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Neotragini
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 11.1° North, 40.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.2° North, 40.5° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary
*International age/stage:Piacenzian (minimum)
Key time interval: Piacenzian
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Awash Formation:Hadar Member:Sidi Hakoma/Denen Dora
Local bed:SH4 - DD1
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = SHT (correlated to Tulu Bor at E. Turkana, 3.36+-.04ma), Min = KHT (3.175+-.01ma) radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:2 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 417, 415, 414, 412, 411, 409, 123, 121, 104, 89, 81, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 581, Hadar - AL.211,
Database number:21763
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1995-09-29 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1995-09-29 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

4782.ETE 491D. C. Johanson, M. Splingaer, and N. T. Boaz. 1976. Paleontological excavations in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Basin, 1969-1973. In Y. Coppens, F. C. Howell, G. L. Isaac, R. L. Leakey (eds.), Earliest Man and Environments in the East Rudolf Basin [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]