Omo - member B: Piacenzian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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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
- Hippopotamidae
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Hexaprotodon protamphibius
(Arambourg 1944)
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Geze 1985 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Hippopotamus protamphibius | ||||||||||
| subspecies turkanensis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.3° North, 36.0° 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
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "Interbedded sand, silt, and clay." | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: "Swamp, levee and channel deposits." |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 518, ; ETE museum list: ENM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 853, Omo - member B, | ||
| Database number: | 22032 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, M. Uhen | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, M. Uhen, 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:
| 4773. | ETE 482 | Y. Coppens and F. C. Howell. 1985. Les Faunes Plio-Pleistocenes de las Basse Vallee de l'Omo (Ethiopie), Tome 1: Perissodactyls, Artiodactyls (Bovidae). Cahiers de Paleontologie, Editions du CNRS, Paris [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer] |
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] |