Also known as MW5
Where: Highlands, Ethiopia (7.1° N, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 39.2° E)
When: Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, conglomeratic conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. Martinez-Navarro, T. Gossa, F. Carotenuto, S. Bartolini-Lucenti, P. Palmqvist, A. Asrat, B. Figueirido, L. Rook, E. M. Niespolo, P. R. Renne, G. Herzlinger and E. Hovers. 2023. The earliest Ethiopian wolf: implications for the species evolution and its future survival. Communications Biology 6(530):1-14 [G. Slater/G. Slater]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 234512: authorized by Graham Slater, entered by Graham Slater on 15.04.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Canis simensis Rüppell 1835 Ethiopian wolf |