Hadar - AL.333: Piacenzian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Golunda gurai
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8 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.-Hadar | ||||||||||
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Millardia coppensi
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.-Hadar | ||||||||||
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Millardia taiebi
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Australopithecus afarensis
Johanson et al. 1978
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202 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Tatera sp.
Lataste 1882
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Spalacidae
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Tachyoryctes pliocaenicus
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 11.1° North, 40.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.0° North, 40.4° East |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | Denen Dora | Local bed: | DD2 |
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = TT4 (3.22+-.01ma), Min = KHt (3.175 +-.01ma), single crystal laser dates radiometric intage_min | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: silts with carbonate concretions appear at top - evidence of regression of lake? (member description) | |||
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: swampy, floodplain | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 222 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 418, 417, 415, 414, 412, 411, 409, 123, 121, 104, 81, ; ETE museum list: ENM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 583, Hadar - AL.333, | ||
| Database number: | 21765 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1995-09-29 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-09-29 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4849. | ETE 559 | M. Beden. 1981. Les proboscidiens des grands gisements a hominides Plio-Pleistocenes d'Afrique orientale. In: L'Environment des Hominides au Plio-Pleistocene. Fondation Singer-Polignac. [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |