Middle Awash - Kuseralee Dora (Miocene to of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 983, Middle Awash - Kuseralee Dora,

Where: Ethiopia (10.4° N, 40.4° E: paleocoordinates 10.0° N, 39.8° E)

When: Kuseralee 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

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: "channel, floodplain"
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "silts, sands, sandstones, and baked soil in contact with the basalts"

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 85, ; 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 22162: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus kenyensis MacInnes 1942 gomphothere
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Primelephas gomphotheroides" = Primelephas korotorensis, Mammuthus subplanifrons
"Primelephas gomphotheroides" = Primelephas korotorensis Coppens 1965 elephant
Mammuthus subplanifrons mammoth
originally entered as "Mammuthus sublanifrons"