Also known as ETE Locality 978, Middle Awash - Chorora fm.,
Where: Ethiopia (10.7° N, 40.5° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 39.7° E)
When: Chorora Formation (Awash Group), Serravallian to Serravallian (13.8 - 7.2 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 12 myo (Bacca volcanics). Min age = 9 myo (ignimbrite overlying the fm). radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: lacustrine
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 510, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Primary reference: J. E. Kalb, C. J. Jolly, A. Mebrate, S. Tebedge, C. Smart, E.B. Oswald, D. Cramer, P. Whitehead, C.B. Wood, G.C. Conroy, T. Adefris, L. Sperling, and B. Kana. 1982. Fossil Mammals and Artifacts from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 298:25-29 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 22157: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.04.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
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Paraulacodus johanesi cane rat | |
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"cf. Palaeotraginae indet." = Palaeotragini
"cf. Palaeotraginae indet." = Palaeotragini Pilgrim 1911 giraffe ETE occurrence; species: cf. Palaeotraginae
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Dicerorhinus aff. leakeyi rhinoceros | |
"Hipparion cf. primigenium" = Hippotherium primigenium, Hipparion sp.
"Hipparion cf. primigenium" = Hippotherium primigenium von Meyer 1829 hipparionine horse
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890 cat | |
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