Omo - F.513 (Pleistocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 564, Omo - F.513,

Where: Ethiopia (5.0° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 35.9° E)

• basin-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

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: prodeltaic-mudflat to deltaic / lacustrine to mdfl
• ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: sand at base of G27, gypsum crystals, tuffitic silt, clayey silt

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 123, 104, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM

Primary reference: C. S. Feibel, F.H. Brown, and I. McDougall. 1989. Stratigraphic Context of Fossil hominids from the Omo Group Deposits: Northern Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 78:595-622 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 21746: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 01.07.1997

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hipparion libycum" = Eurygnathohippus libycum, Equus oldowayensis
"Hipparion libycum" = Eurygnathohippus libycum Pomel 1897 hipparionine horse
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: ethiopicum
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet.
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825 ape
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hominidae
Adenota
  -
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki Schwartz 1932