Middle Awash - Sagantole fm.: Early Pliocene, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
1 specimen
Mammalia - Bovidae
ETE occurrence; species: Bovidae
Mammalia - Suidae
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
ETE occurrence; species: large
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
ETE occurrence; species: Rhinocerotidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 10.5° North, 40.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.3° North, 40.3° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary - Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene - Pliocene
Key time interval: Early Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Awash Formation:Sagantole
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: "Fauna sim to lower Chemeron fm, Ateriri beds, Lothagam-3, sugg early Pliocene age for this fm"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:grading unlithified sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "sands,silts,clays,shale, tuffs, gravel, conglom, ss, ls;UASS basalts intercalate mid of seq"
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: lake-floodplain seds
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:6 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 992, Middle Awash - Sagantole fm.,
Database number:22171
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]