Hadar - AL.137: Piacenzian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas ekorensis
Maglio 1970
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Loxodonta adaurora
Maglio 1970
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: adaurora | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium bozasi
Arambourg 1934
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Nyanzachoerus pattersoni
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Australopithecus afarensis
Johanson et al. 1978
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2 specimens | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Ethiopia |
Coordinates: | 11.1° North, 40.6° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 11.0° North, 40.4° East |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
*International age/stage: | Piacenzian (minimum) | ||
Key time interval: | Piacenzian | ||
Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Awash | Formation: | Hadar | Member: | Sidi Hakoma | Local bed: | (lower SH) |
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Sidi Hakoma Tuff (3.36+-.04ma), Min = Kadada MouMou Basalt (3.05-3.15ma) radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: sandstone,silty clays,clayey silts with "poupees",siltstone with gastropod levels, fauna mostly from SH2(member descrip) | |||
Environment: | wet floodplain | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: marshy, delta plain and delta margin |
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, 412, 411, 409, 123, 121, 104, ; ETE museum list: ENM |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 576, Hadar - AL. 137, | ||
Database number: | 21758 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
Created: | 1995-09-28 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-09-28 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
4835. | ETE 545 | D. C. Johanson, M. Taieb, B. T. Gray and Y. Coppens. 1978. Geological framework of the Pliocene Hadar Formation (Afar, Ethiopia), with notes on paleontology including hominids. In W. Bishop (ed.), Geological Background to Fossil Man 8:549-564 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Wagner] |