Omo - O.75: Gelasian, 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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23 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Australopithecus boisei
Leakey 1959
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Theropithecus brumpti
Arambourg 1947
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Theropithecus oswaldi
(Andrews 1916)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Paracolobus mutiwa
Leakey 1982
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Leakey 1982
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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8 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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14 specimens | |||||||||
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Neotragini | ||||||||||
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Kobus sigmoidalis
Arambourg 1941
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Redunca sp.
Smith 1827
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Kobus ancystrocera
(Arambourg 1947)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Alcelaphini indet.
Brookes 1876
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini | ||||||||||
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cf. Aepyceros sp.
Sundevall 1847
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.-Omo | ||||||||||
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Tragelaphus nakuae
Arambourg 1941
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.4° North, 36.0° East (Wright 2013) |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Gelasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Pliocene |
| *International age/stage: | Gelasian (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Gelasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 1.8 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks sandstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: med-coarse sand and gravel, interlayered with silt, cyclic, fining up to silt, ss slabs,clayey silt (member description) | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 76 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 486, Omo - O.75, | ||
| Database number: | 21668 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1997-07-31 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-07-31 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5263. | ETE 975 | G. Suwa, T. D. White, and F. Clark Howell. 1996. Mandibular postcanine dentition from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia: Crown morphology, taxonomic allocations and Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 101:247-282 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |