Middle Awash - Bikirmali Beds: Zanclean - Pleistocene, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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| ETE occurrence; species: small | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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| ETE occurrence; species: Rhinocerotidae | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 10.3° North, 40.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.4° North, 40.1° East (Wright 2013) |
Time
| Period: | Neogene - Quaternary | Epoch: | Pliocene - Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Quaternary - Quaternary | *Epoch: | Pleistocene (minimum) |
| *International age/stage: | Zanclian | ||
| Key time interval: | Zanclean - Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 0.0117 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Awash | Formation: | Matabaietu | Local bed: | Bikirmali |
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max age = 3.85 +/- .08 (Cindery or Lapilli Tuff). Min age based on correlation of fauna with mbrs D-F of Shungura fm. radiometric intage_max, | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Poorly-sorted clays and silts containing discontinuous sand, gravel, and microconglomerate lenses. Pyroclastic material. | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: predominantly fluvial deposition and alluviation. | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 3 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 562, 560, ; ETE museum list: ENM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 951, Middle Awash - Bikirmali Beds, | ||
| Database number: | 22130 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | ||
| Created: | 1999-03-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-03-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5348. | ETE 1077 | J. E. Kalb, E.B. Oswald, S. Tebedge, A. Mebrate, E. Tola and D. Peak. 1982. Geology and stratigraphy of Neogene deposits, Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 298:17-25 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/D. Reed] |