USNO - White Sands: Pliocene, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Howell et al. 1969 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
= Hystrix cristata
Linnaeus 1758
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Leakey 1982 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Paracolobus mutiwa
Leakey 1982
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Leakey 1982
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ETE occurrence; species: or Paracolobus mutiwa | ||||||||||
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Leakey 1982
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Cercopithecoidea indet.
Gray 1821
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Howell et al. 1969 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
= Cercopithecus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Leakey 1982 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Hominidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Howell et al. 1969 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
= Australopithecus africanus
Dart 1925
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Leakey 1982 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Diceros bicornis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Howell et al. 1969 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
= Ceratotherium simum
Burchell 1821
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Leakey 1982 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Howell et al. 1969 | 14 specimens | ||||||||
= Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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Leakey 1982 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Nyanzachoerus sp.
Leakey 1958
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Nyanzachoerus kanamensis
Leakey 1958
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Metridiochoerus jacksoni
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W | ||||||||||
Notochoerus euilus
(Hopwood 1926)
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33 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus | ||||||||||
Kolpochoerus afarensis
Cooke 1978
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W | ||||||||||
Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Howell et al. 1969 | 63 specimens | ||||||||
= Notochoerus sp.
Broom 1925
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Leakey 1982 | |||||||||
cf. Notochoerus sp.
Broom 1925
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Howell et al. 1969 | 21 specimens | ||||||||
= Hippopotamus protoamphibius
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Leakey 1982 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Antilopini | ||||||||||
Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini | ||||||||||
Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovini | ||||||||||
Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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4 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Reduncini | ||||||||||
Tragelaphus nakuae
Arambourg 1941
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Howell et al. 1969 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Percrocutidae
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Percrocuta sp.
Kretzoi 1938
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Pantherini | ||||||||||
Megantereon sp.
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Howell et al. 1969 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
= Dinofelis sp.
Zdansky 1924
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Leakey 1982 | |||||||||
Homotherium sp.
Fabrini 1890
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Hyaena sp.
Brisson 1762
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Enhydriodon sp.
Falconer 1868
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium indet.
(Kaup 1825)
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Howell et al. 1969 | |||||||||
original and current combination Dinotherium | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Archidiskodon indet.
Pohling 1888
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Howell et al. 1969 | 19 specimens | ||||||||
= Elephas ekorensis
Maglio 1970
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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
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 81 | M. 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:
9358 | 5% 39680 | F. 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] |