USNO - general: Pliocene, 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 ekorensis
Maglio 1970
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2 specimens | ||||||
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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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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.3° North, 36.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.1° North, 35.7° East |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary - Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene - Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | Zone: | max: zone min: zone |
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: 0 | |
| 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: | 8 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 409, 123, 104, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 571, USNO - general, | ||
| Database number: | 21753 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1995-08-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-25 21:59:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-08-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4768. | ETE 477 | H. 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] |