Middle Awash - Equus Beds: Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Kolpochoerus sp.
van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Theropithecus sp.
Geoffroy 1843
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: recki | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 10.6° North, 40.6° 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: | Dakanihyalo |
| Local section: | Equus | Local bed: | Equus | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Fauna comparable to Olduvai above Lemuta mbr. Min age = 8955 y BP (C14 date from Gewani) radiometric intage_min | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tuff |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: tuffs and clays with interdigitating sands and gravels | |
| 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: | 7 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 85, ; ETE museum list: ENM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 993, Middle Awash - Equus Beds, | ||
| Database number: | 22172 | ||
| 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 74 | J. 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] |