Also known as Dmanissi

Where: Georgia (41.3° N, 44.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 45.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• underlying Masavera Basalt was dated at 1.8 +/- 0.1 Ma (K-Ar) by Gabunia and Vekua 1995 and at 1.85 +/- 0.01 (40Ar/39Ar) by Gabunia et al. 2000 and is of normal polarity, so it correlates with the Olduvai Subchron; unit A also is normally polarized and assigned to the same subchron, whereas unit B and fossiliferous fissure fills in unit A are reversed and assigned to the following Matuyama Subchron (Gabunia et al. 2000)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; poorly lithified, tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1991, 1999, 2000, 2002 - 2004

• "over 2000 identifiable vertebrate fossils... and over 1000 stone artifacts" (Gabunia et al. 2000)

Primary reference: L. Gabunia and A. Vekua. 1995. A Plio-Pleistocene hominid from Dmanisi, East Georgia, Caucasus. Nature 373:509-512 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56733: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 23.11.2005, edited by John Alroy, Evangelos Vlachos and Bethany Allen

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