Omo - O.118: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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cf. Aepyceros sp.
Sundevall 1847
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.-Omo | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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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: | Late/Upper 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: | desiccation cracks sandstone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: interbedded with siltstone, 2 sets sediments in F-1, sand and silt and greenish sand with gravel (channel deposit) | |||
| Environment: | wet floodplain | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 8 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 432, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 483, Omo - O.118, | ||
| Database number: | 21665 | ||
| 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:
| 4769. | ETE 478 | J. de Heinzelin. 1983. The Omo Group: Archives of the International Omo Research Expedition. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Annales Series 8, Tervuren, Belgique 85 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer] |