Omo - L.46 (Pleistocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 471, Omo - L.46, P.106,

Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: C Member (Shungura Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max=Tuff C (2.85+-.08ma), Min = Tuff D (2.52+-.05ma) radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: dry_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: silty clay, silt tuffite, sandstone slabs (member description)

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 432, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM

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 21653: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.07.1997

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hippo
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: B-Omo
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Redunca sp. Smith 1827 reedbuck