Omo - L.398: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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64 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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42 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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78 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephantidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: Elephantidae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotheriidae indet.
Bonaparte 1845
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: Equidae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamidae indet.
Gray 1821
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203 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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101 specimens | |||||||||
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Metridiochoerus jacksoni
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Kolpochoerus limnetes
(Hopwood 1926)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W | ||||||||||
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Notochoerus sp.
Broom 1925
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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cf. Notochoerus scotti
(Leakey 1943)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| original and current combination Gerontochoerus scotti | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffidae indet.
Gray 1821
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27 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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264 specimens | |||||||||
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Tragelaphus nakuae
Arambourg 1941
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Lepus capensis
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Hominidae indet.
Gray 1825
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hominidae | ||||||||||
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Australopithecus cf. boisei
Leakey 1959
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6 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Paranthropus boisei | ||||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: .; Double entry removed abundance 5 | ||||||||||
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Homo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Cercopithecidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: Cercopithecidae | ||||||||||
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Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Leakey 1982
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| ETE occurrence; species: or Paracolobus mutiwa | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.0° North, 35.8° East |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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: | sandstone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: tuffaceous, ETE lithology comments: sands and interbedded tuffaceous sediments, clay balls | |||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: high water density+energy, turbid | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 2717 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 418, 417, 415, 414, 412, 411, 409, 123, 121, 104, 81, ; ETE museum list: ENM, UCBE | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 444, Omo - L.398, | ||
| Database number: | 21626 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, R. Potts |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1997-07-28 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-02-11 03:25:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-07-28 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5263. | ETE 975 | G. Suwa, T. D. White, and F. Clark Howell. 1996. Mandibular postcanine dentition from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia: Crown morphology, taxonomic allocations and Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 101:247-282 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |
Secondary references:
| 79691 | R. Bobe, A. K. Behrensmeyer, and R. E. Chapman. 2002. Faunal change, environmental variability and late Pliocene hominin evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 42:475-497 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham] |