Omo - member B2: Piacenzian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
2 specimens
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: brumpti
Mammalia - Suidae
Notochoerus euilus (Hopwood 1926)
14 specimens
original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis Leakey 1982
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
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:B
Local bed:B2
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 3.36 +/- .04 (Tuff B). Min age = 2.95 +/- .03 (Tuff B10). radiometric intage_min
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 482Y. 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]