Omo - L.79: Gelasian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus protoamphibius
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion libycum Pomel 1897
4 specimens
recombined as Eurygnathohippus libycum
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: ethiopicum
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
1 specimen
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.5° North, 36.0° East
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Gelasian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*International age/stage:Gelasian (minimum)
Key time interval:Gelasian
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:F
Local bed:Tuff F
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max and Min ages based on Tuff F radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 913 facies in tuff, blue gray to light tan in color, pumice gravel deposited on land surfaces
Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: volcanic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: airfall, ETE env comment: assoc. channel deposits of sand and tuffaceous sed
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:6 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 123, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 356, Omo - L.79,
Database number:21541
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1997-07-28 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-10-06 12:35:44
Access level:the public Released:1997-07-28 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4768.ETE 477H. B. Wesselman. 1984. The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia. Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution 17 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]