Omo - L.127: Gelasian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Paracolobus mutiwa Leakey 1982
1 specimen
Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg 1947
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
1 specimen
Mammalia - Suidae
Kolpochoerus limnetes (Hopwood 1926)
5 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Redunca sp. Smith 1827
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
2 specimens
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.5° North, 36.1° East
Geographic resolution:basin
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:2.58800 - 1.80600 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:E
Local bed:E-3
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff E, Min = Tuff F radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: silty clay and silt in E-3-3, sand is obliquely stratified, description and thickness for member
Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: dep. seq=channel,levee, floodplain
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:11 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 88, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 365, Omo - L.127,
Database number:21547
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1997-07-03 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-10-06 12:35:44
Access level:the public Released:1997-07-03 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4447.ETE 81M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]