Middle Awash - Bodo 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 - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
ETE occurrence; species: recki
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
ETE occurrence; species: Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium cf. simum (Burchell 1821)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Suidae
Kolpochoerus cf. majus (Hopwood 1934)
ETE occurrence; species: B, cf. Kolpochoerus majus, mak - species name from unique name
Kolpochoerus limnetes (Hopwood 1926)
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Mammalia - Bovidae
cf. Kobus leche Gray 1850
Aepyceros cf. melampus (Lichtenstein 1812)
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
unclassified
ETE occurrence; species: cf. leakeyi
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
ETE occurrence; species: cf. rhodesiensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Thryonomyidae
cf. Thryonomys sp. Fitzinger 1867
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 10.6° 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:Bodo
Local section:UBSU Local bed:UBSU
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Fauna is comp to Olduvai above the Lemuta mbr. Min age = 8955 y BP (C14 date from Gewani) radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:grading tuff
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "sands, conglomerates, silts, clays, and tuffs"
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: point bar
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:21 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 998, Middle Awash - Bodo mbr.,
Database number:22177
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]