Omo - L.11: Gelasian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Suidae
Metridiochoerus jacksoni
3 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
2 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Ancylotherium hennigi
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:5.9° North, 36.0° 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:2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:D
Local bed:D-4 to D-5
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff D (correlation with Lokalalei Tuff at East Turkana), Min = Tuff E radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: fines up to silt in D-5, ss concretions, sandy silt, vitric tuff, silty clay (member description and thickness)
Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: sed sequence=channel-levee-floodplain-channel-leve
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:8 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 422, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 377, Omo - L.11, P.410,
Database number:21559
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:

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]