Omo - Member E3: Gelasian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
5 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
Kolpochoerus limnetes (Hopwood 1926)
1 specimen
1 specimen
Mammalia - Bovidae
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Neotragini
Tragelaphus nakuae Arambourg 1941
1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus oswaldi (Andrews 1916)
1 specimen
Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg 1947
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.5° North, 36.0° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Gelasian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*International age/stage:Gelasian (minimum)
Key time interval: Gelasian
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 1.8 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:E3
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 2.37 (Tuff E), Min age = 2.36 (Tuff F) radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: sand, silt, and silty clay
Environment:fluvial indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:15 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 786, Omo - Member E3,
Database number:21966
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1997-10-17 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1997-10-17 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
4763.ETE 454G. Eck. 1977. Diversity and frequency distributions of Omo Group Cercopithecidae. Journal of Human Evolution 6:55-63 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer]