Har Ide I: Pleistocene, Djibouti

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
originally entered as "Elephus recki"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus cf. amphibius Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Bovidae
Megalotragus kattwinkeli (Scwarz 1932)
original and current combination Alcelaphus kattwinkeli
see common names

Geography
Country:Djibouti
Coordinates: 11.1° North, 42.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.5° North, 42.2° East
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Quaternary - Quaternary *Epoch:Pleistocene - Pleistocene
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Between 0.6 to 0.3 Ma.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: .
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:4 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 921, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1307, HRD I, Har Ide I,
Database number:22483
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:J. Alroy
Created:2000-04-10 01:00:00 Last modified:2007-08-09 12:17:15
Access level:the public Released:2000-04-10 01:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5616.ETE 1363L. de Bonis, D. Geraads, J. Jaeger and S. Sen. 1988. Vertebres du Pleistocene de Djibouti. Bulletin Society Geol. France IV(2):323-334 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Mannion]