Where: Oromīya, Ethiopia (8.9° N, 40.3° E: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 39.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chorora Formation, MN 9 (11.1 - 9.7 Ma)

• "underlain by a conspicuous rhyolitic ignimbrite, previously dated to 10.7 ± 0.2 (20) or 11.0 ± 0.45 (17) by the K-Ar method" and "overlain by resistant pyroclastic flow deposits dated by the K-Ar method to 10.10 ± 0.30 Ma" (= MN 9)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, paleosol/pedogenic, concretionary, silty, sandy conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005 - 2007

Collection methods: surface (float)

• "fossils are scarce, with fragmentary and rarely identifiable fossils inconspicuously scattered on the surface"

Primary reference: G. Suwa, R. T. Kono, S. Katoh, B. Asfaw, and Y. Beyene. 2007. A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia. Nature 448:921-924 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92148: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.11.2009, edited by Mark Uhen

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