Omo - member D5: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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9 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Kolpochoerus limnetes
(Hopwood 1926)
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9 specimens | |||||||||
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Metridiochoerus jacksoni
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Notochoerus scotti
(Leakey 1943)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| original and current combination Gerontochoerus scotti | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Tragelaphus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Kobus sigmoidalis
Arambourg 1941
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Dermoptera
- Galeopithecidae
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Galeopithecidae indet.
Gray 1821
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Theropithecus brumpti
Arambourg 1947
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Australopithecus sp.
Dart 1925
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: non-robust | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.8° North, 36.0° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Gelasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| *International age/stage: | Gelasian (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Gelasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "Sand, silt, tuff, and clay with some gravel and ironstone" | |||
| Environment: | fluvial indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 33 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 488, 487, 485, 483, 482, 481, 478, 477, 456, 454, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list: ENM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 820, Omo - member D5, | ||
| Database number: | 21999 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1998-07-01 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1998-07-01 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4763. | ETE 454 | G. Eck. 1977. Diversity and frequency distributions of Omo Group Cercopithecidae. Journal of Human Evolution 6:55-63 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer] |