Middle Awash - Adu mbr. (Miocene to of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 980, Middle Awash - Adu mbr.,

Where: Ethiopia (10.4° N, 40.2° E: paleocoordinates 10.0° N, 39.6° E)

When: Adu Member (Adu-Asa Formation), Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Max age = 9.0; Min age = 3.89 +/- .02 (AT-1 or VT-1 in Aramis mbr, Ar/Ar & Ca/K dates)." radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "lo unit:up to 30m of clays, silts, and sands;up unit: 12m or more pof diatomites,clays, &tuffs"

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 579, ; ETE museum list: ENM

Primary reference: J. E. Kalb. 1993. Refined stratigraphy of the hominid-bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Newsletter of Stratigraphy 29(1):21-62 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 22159: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bacillariophyceae
 Melosirales - Melosiraceae
Melosira sp.
Melosira sp. Agardh 1824 diatom
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
cf. Stegotetrabelodon orbus, cf. Stegodibelodon schneideri
cf. Stegotetrabelodon orbus Maglio 1970 elephant
cf. Stegodibelodon schneideri Coppens 1972 elephant
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus kenyensis
Anancus kenyensis MacInnes 1942 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet.
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
ETE occurrence; species: Rhinocerotidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp.
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hexaprotodon sp.
Hexaprotodon sp. Falconer and Cautley 1836 pygmy hippo
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Boselaphini indet.
Boselaphini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1997 antelope
ETE occurrence; species: Boselaphini
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Nyanzachoerus cf. tulotos, Kolpochoerus sp.
Nyanzachoerus cf. tulotos pig
originally duplicated as "Nyanzachoerus tulotus"
Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig