Hadar - AL.145 (Pliocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 574, Hadar - AL.145,

Where: Ethiopia (11.1° N, 40.6° E: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 40.4° E)

When: Sidi Hakoma Member (Hadar Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Sidi Hakoma Tuff (3.36+-.04ma), Min = TT4 - crystals at base (3.221+-.01ma) radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: marshy, delta plain and delta margin
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: sandstone, silty clays, clayey silts with "poupees", siltstone with gastropod levels (member description)

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 409, 123, 104, ; ETE museum list: ENM

Primary reference: D. C. Johanson, M. Taieb, B. T. Gray and Y. Coppens. 1978. Geological framework of the Pliocene Hadar Formation (Afar, Ethiopia), with notes on paleontology including hominids. In W. Bishop (ed.), Geological Background to Fossil Man 8:549-564 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Wagner]more details

PaleoDB collection 21756: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.10.1995

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Primates - Hominidae
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus afarensis Johanson et al. 1978 australopithecine
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Nyanzachoerus pattersoni
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta adaurora
Loxodonta adaurora Maglio 1970 African elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: adaurora