Omo - O.81: Piacenzian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Diceros bicornis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Tragelaphus gaudryi
Thomas 1884
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6 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Nyanzachoerus sp.
Leakey 1958
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Nyanzachoerus kanamensis
Leakey 1958
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7 specimens | ||||||
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Notochoerus euilus
(Hopwood 1926)
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10 specimens | ||||||
| original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Leakey 1982
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.3° North, 36.0° East |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: fines up to silt, silty clay, interlayered silt and micaceous sand, tuffite and fine silt (member description) | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: sed sequence=channel-levee-channel-levee-floodplai | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 30 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 409, 123, 104, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 452, Omo - O.81, P.928, | ||
| Database number: | 21634 | ||
| 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:
| 4447. | ETE 81 | M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |