USNO - Brown Sands: Pliocene, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cercopithecoides indet. Mollett 1947
ETE occurrence; species: or Paracolobus mutiwa
    = Rhinocologus turkanaensis
Leakey 1982
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Paracolobus mutiwa Leakey 1982
Leakey 1982 2 specimens
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis Leakey 1982
Leakey 1982 14 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825
16 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hominidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus 1758)
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
    = Ceratotherium simum Burchell 1821
Leakey 1982
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821
3 specimens
    = Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
Leakey 1982
Mammalia - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821
48 specimens
Notochoerus scotti (Leakey 1943)
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
original and current combination Gerontochoerus scotti
Nyanzachoerus sp. Leakey 1958
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
cf. Nyanzachoerus sp. Leakey 1958
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
Nyanzachoerus kanamensis Leakey 1958
Leakey 1982 4 specimens
cf. Nyanzachoerus kanamensis Leakey 1958
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
Metridiochoerus jacksoni
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W
Notochoerus euilus (Hopwood 1926)
Leakey 1982 32 specimens
original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus
Kolpochoerus afarensis Cooke 1978
Leakey 1982 5 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus indet. Linnaeus 1758
11 specimens
    = Hippopotamus protoamphibius
Leakey 1982
    = Hippopotamus protamphibius Arambourg 1944
Geze 1985
n. subspecies turkanensis
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Antilopini
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
Leakey 1982 2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovini
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
2 specimens
    = Tragelaphus nakuae Arambourg 1941
Leakey 1982
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera cf. pardus (Linnaeus 1758)
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
1 specimen
    = Felis caracal Schreber 1776
Leakey 1982
recombined as Caracal caracal
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Viverra leakeyi Petter 1963
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Lutra sp. Brisson 1762
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
Enhydriodon sp. Falconer 1868
Leakey 1982 1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium indet. (Kaup 1825)
original and current combination Dinotherium
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon indet. Pohling 1888
10 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
Geographic resolution:basin
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-12
Local bed:U-12-2 to 3
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Max = U - 11/12 boundary (paleomag), Min = U-14 (paleomag)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: gravelly, stratified coarse sand
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:165 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 412, 411, 409, 123, 121, 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 573, USNO - Brown Sands,
Database number:21755
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, E. Leckey, M. Uhen, J. Damuth
Modifier:E. Leckey
Created:1995-08-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2004-01-15 16:37:09
Access level:the public Released:1995-08-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9358.5% 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]

Secondary references:

33267 R. Geze. 1985. Repartition paleoecologique et relations phylogenetiques des Hippopotamidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) du Neogene d'Afrique orientale. Environment des hominides au Plio-Pleistocene 81-100 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
4447ETE 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]