Danakil - general: Pleistocene, Eritrea

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
Mammalia - Bovidae
Pelorovis sp. Reck 1928
Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby 1833)
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Mammalia - Suidae
Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932
Kolpochoerus cf. majus (Hopwood 1934)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
see common names

Geography
Country:Eritrea State/province:Afar Depression
Coordinates: 14.1° North, 39.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.8° North, 39.9° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Quaternary - Quaternary *Epoch:Pleistocene - Pleistocene
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Red Series Formation:Danakil
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: "Formation correlated to Awash Group, Ethiopia. Based on biochronological & paleomagnetic data."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty siltstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: clay slts&snds, ETE lithology comments: Grey to whit w/small amts marls
Environment:fluvial-deltaic indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: Fluvio-deltaic&lacus
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:14 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 933, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1312, Afar Depression, Danakil - general,
Database number:22488
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:2000-04-10 01:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-04-10 01:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
5618.ETE 1365E. Abbate, A. Albianelli, A. Azzaroli, M. Benvenuti, B. Tesfamariam, P. Bruni, N. Cipriani, R. J. Clarke, G. Ficcarelli, R. Macchiarelli, G. Napoleone, M. Papini, L. Rook, M. Sagri, T. Medhin Tecle, D. Torre, and I. Villa. 1998. A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea. Nature 393:458-460 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]