Omo - O.75s: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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15 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Notochoerus sp.
Broom 1925
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Notochoerus scotti
(Leakey 1943)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Gerontochoerus scotti | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelus grattardi n. sp.
Geraads 2014
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Geraads 2014 | |||||||||
| Omo 75S-70–956 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Redunca sp.
Smith 1827
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Kobus sigmoidalis
Arambourg 1941
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Tragelaphus nakuae
Arambourg 1941
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Syncerus cf. acoelotus
Gentry 1985
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Hominidae indet.
Gray 1825
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hominidae | ||||||||||
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Homo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Leakey 1982
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.7° North, 36.4° 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: fines up to silt, sandy silt and clayey silt, tuffite, ss slabs, gravelly sand (member description) | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 35 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 432, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 489, O.93, Omo - O.75s, | ||
| Database number: | 21671 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Marcot | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Marcot |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 62153 | D. Geraads. 2014. Camelus grattardi, sp. nov., a New Camel from the Shungura Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and the Relationships of African Fossil Camelidae (Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(6):1481-1485 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |