Hadar - AL.198: Piacenzian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
4 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Spalacidae
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
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = SHT (correlated to Tulu Bor at E.Turkana, 3.36+-.04ma), Min = TT4 (3.221+-.01ma) radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty claystone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: 492 carbonate layers above SH1 (member description)
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:5 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 88, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 600, Hadar - AL.198,
Database number:21782
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1995-10-02 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-02 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]