Omo - member B2: Piacenzian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: brumpti | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Notochoerus euilus
(Hopwood 1926)
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14 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Leakey 1982
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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 - 2.58800 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Stratified tuffaceous silty sand and clays. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: Levee and channel deposits. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
Collection size: | 17 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 518, ; ETE museum list: ENM |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 855, Omo - member B2, | ||
Database number: | 22034 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
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] |