Omo - member K7: Early Pleistocene, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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4 specimens | ||||||
| 2 specimens | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.5° North, 36.0° East (Wright 2013) |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Quaternary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Pleistocene |
| Key time interval: | Early Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 28993 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Wertheim |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-03-10 11:21:45 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-03-10 11:21:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7932. | 5% 14300 | C. Guerin. 1985. Les Rhinoceros et les Chalicotheres (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) des gisements de la Vallee de l'Omo en Ethiopie (collections francaise). In Y. Coppens (ed.), Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sep. 1985, Cahiers de Paleontologie, Section Vertebres, Paris, France 1985:67-96 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/M. Uhen] |