Middle Awash (Bodo/MB): 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
- Bovidae
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| ETE occurrence; species: Bovidae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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| ETE occurrence; species: tetraprotodont hippo | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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| ETE occurrence; species: Rhinocerotidae | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 10.6° North, 40.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.7° North, 40.4° 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: | MB |
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max age = 3.85 +/- .08 (CT (Cindery or Lapilli Tuff)). Min age = fauna correlates with Mbrs. D-F of Shungura fm. radiometric intage_max, | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: variable, discontinuously bedded dark brown conglomerates, sands, silts, and tuffs interdigitating with clays and silts. | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . 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: 566, 564, 562, 561, 560, 558, 557, 556, 555, 554, 553, 552, 551, 550, 549, 548, 547, 546, 545, 491, ; ETE museum list: ENM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 957, Middle Awash - Bodo, MB, | ||
| Database number: | 22136 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| 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:
| 5352. | ETE 1081 | T. D. White. 1986. Cut marks on the Bodo cranium: a case of prehistoric defleshing. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 69:503-509 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |