Fejej - FJ5: Pliocene - Pleistocene, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Papio sp.
Erxleben 1777
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Thryonomyidae
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Thryonomys sp.
Fitzinger 1867
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Metridiochoerus andrewsi
Hopwood 1926
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| originally entered as "Metridochoerus andrewsi" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Reduncini indet.
Knottnerus-Meyer 1907
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| ETE occurrence; species: Reduncini | ||||||||||
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Alcelaphus sp.
Blainville 1816
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Tragelaphus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.0° North, 37.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.1° North, 36.9° East (Wright 2013) |
Time
| Period: | Neogene - Quaternary | Epoch: | Pliocene - Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary - Quaternary | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene - Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 0.0117 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Fejej Basalts | Formation: | Fejej | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Overlying 89FJ-5B Tuff younger than Malbe Tuff (1.87My) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "Overlain by 1m th,lght gry ash lyer" | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: Fluv w/intrbd lacustr units&vol ash | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 14 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 1408, Fejej - FJ5, | ||
| Database number: | 22568 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 2000-06-28 01:00:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-06-28 01:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5624. | ETE 1371 | J. Fleagle, T. Bown, and D. Rasmussen. 1992. Fejej, Southern Ethiopia. Research and Exploration 8(1):119-120 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/J. Alroy] |