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
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:G
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff G, Min = Tuff H radiometric intage_min
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 81M. 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]