Also known as ETE Locality 555, Mursi - Yellow Sands,
Where: Ethiopia (5.4° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 35.5° E)
When: Mursi Formation (Omo Group), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Maximum age not reached. radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: sandstone
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 409, 409, 123, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), 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 21737: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.08.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki, Loxodonta adaurora
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
Loxodonta adaurora Maglio 1970 African elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: adaurora
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Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
Diceros bicornis Linnaeus 1758 black rhinoceros
Ceratotherium praecox white rhino | |
Nyanzachoerus kanamensis, "cf. Nyanzachoerus syrticus" = Sivachoerus syrticus
Nyanzachoerus kanamensis Leakey 1958 pig
"cf. Nyanzachoerus syrticus" = Sivachoerus syrticus Leonardi 1954 pig | |
Reduncini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1907 antelope ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Reduncini
Tragelaphus cf. gaudryi Thomas 1884 antelope |