Omo - L.338y: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name | ||||||||||
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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206 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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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffidae indet.
Gray 1821
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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89 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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39 specimens | |||||||||
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Metridiochoerus jacksoni
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W | ||||||||||
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Kolpochoerus limnetes
(Hopwood 1926)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: Carnivora | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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8 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Mellivorinae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus capensis
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: Rodentia | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Xerus sp.
Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Hominidae indet.
Gray 1825
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8 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hominidae | ||||||||||
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Australopithecus cf. boisei
Leakey 1959
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Paranthropus boisei | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Cercopithecidae indet.
Gray 1821
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103 specimens | |||||||||
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Theropithecus brumpti
Arambourg 1947
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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81 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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425 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.0° North, 35.8° 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: | sandstone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: stratified silty sand, sandy silt,compacted silt with white concretions,coarse sand pockets + bones,reduced clay E-3-3 | |||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: moving shoreline of shallow river,temp floods | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 7327 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 412, 409, 123, ; ETE museum list: ENM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 445, Omo - L.338y, P.386, | ||
| Database number: | 21627 | ||
| 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 03:23:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-07-28 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] |
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] |