Omo - member G: Gelasian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus
Mammalia - Suidae
2 specimens
Metridiochoerus modestus (van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932)
1 specimen
Kolpochoerus limnetes (Hopwood 1926)
3 specimens
2 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Menelikia lyrocera Arambourg 1941
2 specimens
1 specimen
Tragelaphus nakuae Arambourg 1941
1 specimen
Mammalia - Camelidae
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.5° North, 36.0° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Gelasian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch: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
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:G
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 2.33 (Tuff G). Min age = 1.88 (Tuff H). radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "Interbedded tuff, tuffite, silt, sand, and clay."
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: "early fluv, later shallow saline lacus/prodel"
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:16 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 477, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 807, Omo - member G,
Database number:21986
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1998-07-01 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1998-07-01 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
5281.ETE 1005L. Bobe and M. Mabela. 1997. Incidence of four gastrointestinal parasite worms in group of cricetomas,Lukaya-Democratic Republic of Congo. Tropicultura 15(3):132-135 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]