Middle Awash - Beearyada Beds: Zanclean, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus sp. Aymard 1855
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Sagantole type
ETE occurrence; species: sp. C, mak - species name from unique name
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
ETE occurrence; species: brumpti
Mammalia - Suidae
Notochoerus cf. euilus (Hopwood 1926)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Boselaphini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1997
ETE occurrence; species: Boselaphini
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 10.5° North, 40.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.3° North, 40.3° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*International age/stage:Zanclian - Zanclian
Key time interval: Zanclean
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Awash Formation:Sagantole Local bed:Beearyada
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 3.89 +/- .02 (AT-1 or VT-1, Ar/Ar and Ca/K dating). Min age = 3.85 +/- .08 (CT (Cindery or Lapilli Tuff)). radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Tuffs, silts, sands, sandstone, clay, conglomerate, and limestone.
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: marginal lacustrine & some fluv_deltaic deposition
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:5 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 494, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 958, Middle Awash - Beearyada Beds,
Database number:22137
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:
5363.ETE 1092J. E. Kalb and A. Mebrate. 1993. Fossil elephantoids from the hominid-bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 83(1) [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]