Omo - L.382: Piacenzian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Xenohystrix crassidens
1 specimen
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.5° North, 36.0° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary
*International age/stage:Piacenzian (minimum)
Key time interval:Piacenzian
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:B
Local bed:B-7 to B-10
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff B (3.36+-.04ma), Min = tuff B-10-1 (2.95+-.03ma) radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks siltstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: clay, sand, nodular concretions, hematite (member description)
Environment:wet floodplain Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: meandering river?
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Collection size:2 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 418, 417, 409, 123, 104, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 441, Omo - L.382,
Database number:21623
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]