Also known as ETE Locality 472, Omo - L.626, P.118,
Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 35.8° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: G Member (Shungura Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff G, Min = Tuff H radiometric intage_min
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•Bobe et al. 2002: member G of the Shungura Fm. dates between ~2.33–1.9Ma. Lower G member is 2.33–2.1Ma and upper G member is 2.1–1.9Ma
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 432, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, 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
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21654: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.07.1997
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Deinotheriidae indet. Bonaparte 1845 deinothere ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Deinotheriidae
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Equus oldowayensis horse
"Hipparion libycum" = Eurygnathohippus libycum Pomel 1897 hipparionine horse ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: ethiopicum
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Hippopotamidae indet. Gray 1821 hippopotamus ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hippopotamidae
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Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig
Notochoerus sp. Broom 1925 pig | |
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Menelikia lyrocera Arambourg 1941 antelope
Tragelaphus nakuae Arambourg 1941 antelope | |
Cercopithecidae indet. Gray 1821 monkey ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Cercopithecinae
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