Omo - O.1A-B: Gelasian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis Leakey 1982
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Mammalia - Suidae
Notochoerus scotti (Leakey 1943)
2 specimens
original and current combination Gerontochoerus scotti
Mammalia - Bovidae
Aepyceros shungurae Gentry 1985
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.
Tragelaphus nakuae Arambourg 1941
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.5° North, 36.0° East
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
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:G
Local bed:G1-5
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,grading sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: sand fining upwards to silt and clay, cyclic sediments
Environment:fluvial indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:7 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 409, 123, 104, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, IPP, KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 559, Omo - O.1A-B,
Database number:21741
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 477H. 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]