Omo - O.6: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
|
||||||||||
Theropithecus oswaldi
(Andrews 1916)
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
|
||||||||||
Diceros bicornis
(Linnaeus 1758)
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
|
2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
|
||||||||||
Metridiochoerus jacksoni
|
12 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
|
||||||||||
Hippopotamus protoamphibius
|
5 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
|
||||||||||
Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Ethiopia |
Coordinates: | 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 5.6° North, 36.0° 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: | 2.58800 - 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 sandy silt and silt, cyclic sedimentation, clayey silt (member description) | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
Collection size: | 22 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 432, ; ETE museum list: ENM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 484, Omo - O.6, | ||
Database number: | 21666 | ||
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:
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] |