Omo - O.53: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Kolpochoerus sp.
van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Tragelaphus gaudryi
Thomas 1884
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1 specimen | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Ethiopia |
Coordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 5.0° North, 35.9° East |
Geographic resolution: | basin |
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: | 2.58800 - 1.80600 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks sandstone |
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: fines up to silt and clay, lens of tuff, cyclic units, Etheria reefs | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: some soil development under Tuff D |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
Collection size: | 6 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 412, 411, 123, 121, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 478, Omo - O.53, | ||
Database number: | 21660 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth |
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:
4768. | ETE 477 | H. 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] |