Omo - O.222: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
|
||||||||||
|
Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
|
2 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus | ||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
|
||||||||||
|
Hominidae indet.
Gray 1825
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hominidae | ||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Suidae
|
||||||||||
|
Kolpochoerus sp.
van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Metridiochoerus jacksoni
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W | ||||||||||
|
Notochoerus scotti
(Leakey 1943)
|
2 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Gerontochoerus scotti | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.1° 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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | grading sandstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: fines up to sandy silt & then silt scattered gravels in basal layer (member description) | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 7 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 807, 431, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 398, Omo - O.222, | ||
| Database number: | 21580 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1997-07-31 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-07-31 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4486. | ETE 121 | C. S. Feibel, F.H. Brown, and I. McDougall. 1989. Stratigraphic Context of Fossil hominids from the Omo Group Deposits: Northern Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 78:595-622 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |