Also known as ETE Locality 434, Omo - L.597,
Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.9° N, 35.8° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Olduvai min: zone zone, G Member (Shungura Formation), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max=Tuff G(1.98+-.10ma),Min=bottom of Olduvai(paleomag) at G26/27 boundary (date is from time-unit table and fraction)
Environment/lithology: sandstone
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 409, 123, 104, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE
Primary reference: H. B. Wesselman. 1984. The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia. Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution 17 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 21616: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 01.06.1995, edited by John Damuth
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus
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Ceratotherium simum Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros | |
"Hipparion libycum" = Eurygnathohippus libycum
"Hipparion libycum" = Eurygnathohippus libycum Pomel 1897 hipparionine horse ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: ethiopicum
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"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus, Metridiochoerus jacksoni
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus Hopwood 1926 giant forest hog |