Omo - member G24: Gelasian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Bovidae
Hippotragini indet. Sundevall 1845
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hippotragini
Connochaetes sp. (Lichtenstein 1812)
2 specimens
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.5° North, 36.0° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Gelasian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*International age/stage:Gelasian (minimum)
Key time interval: Gelasian
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 1.8 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:G
Local bed:G24
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 2.33 (Tuff G). Min age = 1.88 (Tuff H). radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Silt and clayey silt
Environment:lacustrine - small Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: shallow_lake ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:4 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 477, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 825, Omo - member G24,
Database number:22004
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:
4773.ETE 482Y. Coppens and F. C. Howell. 1985. Les Faunes Plio-Pleistocenes de las Basse Vallee de l'Omo (Ethiopie), Tome 1: Perissodactyls, Artiodactyls (Bovidae). Cahiers de Paleontologie, Editions du CNRS, Paris [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer]