Middle Awash - Kalaloo Mbr.: Zanclean, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
ETE occurrence; species: Stegotetrabelodont
Anancus sp. Aymard 1855
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Parapapio sp. Jones 1937
cf. Theropithecus sp. Geoffroy 1843
ETE occurrence; species: cf. darti
Mammalia - Giraffidae
ETE occurrence; species: Giraffidae
Mammalia - Bovidae
cf. Tragelaphus sp. de Blainville 1816
Tragelaphus aff. nakuae Arambourg 1941
ETE occurrence; species: mak - species name from unique name
Mammalia - Suidae
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
ETE occurrence; species: Rhinocerotidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 10.6° North, 40.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.4° North, 40.4° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Quaternary - Quaternary *Epoch:Pleistocene (minimum)
*International age/stage:Zanclian
Key time interval: Zanclean
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Awash Formation:Sagantole
Local section:Kalaloo Local bed:Kalaloo
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max age = 3.85 +/- .08 (CT (Cindery or Lapilli Tuff)). Min age = Pleistocene, based on fauna. radiometric intage_max,
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: tuff
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Widely traceable lapilli tuff and variable silts, siltstone, sand, microconglomerate lenses, silty tuff, and clay.
Environment:lacustrine - large
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine_lg, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: lake-marginal and alluvial deposition
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:16 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 566, 565, 564, 563, 562, 561, 560, 559, 558, 557, 556, 555, 554, 553, 552, 551, 550, 549, 548, 547, 546, 545, 491, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 954, Middle Awash - Kalaloo Mbr.,
Database number:22133
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:G. Varnham
Created:1999-03-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
5348.ETE 1077J. E. Kalb, E.B. Oswald, S. Tebedge, A. Mebrate, E. Tola and D. Peak. 1982. Geology and stratigraphy of Neogene deposits, Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 298:17-25 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/D. Reed]