USNO - White Sands: Pliocene, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758
Howell et al. 1969 1 specimen
    = Hystrix cristata Linnaeus 1758
Leakey 1982
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Paracolobus mutiwa Leakey 1982
1 specimen
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis Leakey 1982
ETE occurrence; species: or Paracolobus mutiwa
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis Leakey 1982
4 specimens
Cercopithecoidea indet. Gray 1821
Howell et al. 1969 2 specimens
    = Cercopithecus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Leakey 1982
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825
Howell et al. 1969 10 specimens
    = Australopithecus africanus Dart 1925
Leakey 1982
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus 1758)
5 specimens
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Howell et al. 1969 6 specimens
    = Ceratotherium simum Burchell 1821
Leakey 1982
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Howell et al. 1969 14 specimens
    = Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
Leakey 1982
Mammalia - Suidae
Nyanzachoerus sp. Leakey 1958
1 specimen
Nyanzachoerus kanamensis Leakey 1958
10 specimens
Metridiochoerus jacksoni
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W
Notochoerus euilus (Hopwood 1926)
33 specimens
original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus
Kolpochoerus afarensis Cooke 1978
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W
Suidae indet. Gray 1821
Howell et al. 1969 63 specimens
    = Notochoerus sp. Broom 1925
Leakey 1982
cf. Notochoerus sp. Broom 1925
2 specimens
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Howell et al. 1969 21 specimens
    = Hippopotamus protoamphibius
Leakey 1982
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Antilopini
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovini
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
4 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Reduncini
Tragelaphus nakuae Arambourg 1941
2 specimens
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821
Howell et al. 1969
Mammalia - Carnivora - Percrocutidae
Percrocuta sp. Kretzoi 1938
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Pantherini
Megantereon sp. Croizet and Jobert 1828
1 specimen
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Howell et al. 1969 1 specimen
    = Dinofelis sp. Zdansky 1924
Leakey 1982
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Enhydriodon sp. Falconer 1868
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium indet. (Kaup 1825)
Howell et al. 1969
original and current combination Dinotherium
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon indet. Pohling 1888
Howell et al. 1969 19 specimens
    = Elephas ekorensis Maglio 1970
Leakey 1982
see common names

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 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:USNO Member:U
Local bed:above U-12
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max = U-14, bottom of Mammoth (paleomag), Min = U - 16/17, bottom of Kaena (paleomag)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: gravelly, coarse sand, minor variations from Brown sands
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: fluvial deltaic, marshes and swamps
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:214 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, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 572, USNO - White Sands,
Database number:21754
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Alroy Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth, E. Leckey
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:1995-08-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-25 21:58:56
Access level:the public Released:1995-08-30 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]

Secondary references:

93585% 39680F. C. Howell, L. S. Fichter, and G. Eck. 1969. Vertebrate assemblages from the Usno Formation, White Sands and Brown Sands localities, lower Omo basin, Ethiopia. Quaternaria 11:65-88 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]