Omo - Member L2: Early Pleistocene, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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| 2 specimens | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.5° North, 36.0° East (Wright 2013) |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Quaternary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Pleistocene |
| Key time interval: | Early Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 28618 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Wertheim |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-02-20 13:34:19 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-20 13:34:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7837. | 5% 29520 | C. S. Churcher and D. A. Hooijer. 1980. The Olduvai Zebra (Equus oldowayensis) from the later Omo beds, Ethiopia. Zoologische Mededelingen 55(22):265-280 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/M. Uhen] |