Middle Awash - Andalee mbr.: Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
ETE occurrence; species: Rodentia
ETE occurrence; species: Carnivora
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta sp. Erxleben 1777
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
ETE occurrence; species: cf. Lutrinae
Mammalia - Suidae
cf. Kolpochoerus majus (Hopwood 1934)
ETE occurrence; species: B cf. K. majus, mak - species name from unique name
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffa cf. jumae Leakey 1967
Mammalia - Bovidae
ETE occurrence; species: Murinae
ETE occurrence; species: Bovini small
Aepyceros cf. melampus (Lichtenstein 1812)
Redunca sp. Smith 1827
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876
ETE occurrence; species: Alcelaphini
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
Tragelaphus sp. de Blainville 1816
ETE occurrence; species: large
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Thryonomyidae
cf. Thryonomys sp. Fitzinger 1867
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
ETE occurrence; species: Gerbillinae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Nesomyidae
Dendromuridae indet. (Alston 1875)
ETE occurrence; species: cf. Dendromurinae
Mammalia - Dermoptera - Galeopithecidae
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
ETE occurrence; species: cf. leakeyi
Colobus cf. guereza Rüppell 1835
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
ETE occurrence; species: recki
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 10.9° North, 40.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Chibanian - Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*International age/stage:Holocene (minimum)
Key time interval: Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Awash Formation:Wehaietu Member:Andalee
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: "Max age based on fauna,comp to Olduvai above Lemuta mbr;Min age = 8955y BP (C14 date from gewani)" radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomerate
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "sand, silt, clay. gravel, and lense of pebble conglomerate"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: predominantly lacustr
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:27 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 510, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 977, Middle Awash - Andalee mbr.,
Database number:22156
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:G. Varnham
Created:1999-04-19 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-04-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
4442.ETE 74J. E. Kalb, C. J. Jolly, A. Mebrate, S. Tebedge, C. Smart, E.B. Oswald, D. Cramer, P. Whitehead, C.B. Wood, G.C. Conroy, T. Adefris, L. Sperling, and B. Kana. 1982. Fossil Mammals and Artifacts from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 298:25-29 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]