Omo - member H: Pliocene - Calabrian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
4 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: B-Omo
7 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
4 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: ileretensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.2° 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
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Max age = 1.88 (Tuff H). min age = 1.65+/- .05 (Tuff J, J4). " radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "Interbedded sand, silt, tuff, tuffite, pumice, some clayey beds"
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: "fluctuating lacus or del fringe, mudflats "
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:17 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 477, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 810, Omo - member H,
Database number:21989
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1998-07-01 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1998-07-01 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
5281.ETE 1005L. Bobe and M. Mabela. 1997. Incidence of four gastrointestinal parasite worms in group of cricetomas,Lukaya-Democratic Republic of Congo. Tropicultura 15(3):132-135 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]