Centre-Gobaad: Pleistocene, Djibouti

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus cf. gorgops Dietrich 1928
Mammalia - Bovidae
Kobus sp. Smith 1840
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas cf. recki Dietrich 1915
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
ETE occurrence; species: cf. ileretensis; originally entered as "Elephus cf. recki"
Loxodonta sp. Cuvier 1825
1 specimen
Reptilia
Crocodylus nilocticus
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Clariidae
Heterobranchus sp. Hilaire 1827
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:2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: .
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:6 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 933, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1310, Centre-Gobaad,
Database number:22486
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:

5617.ETE 1364H. Thomas and Y. Coppens. 1984. Discovery of Fossil Vertebrates in the Lower Pleistocene of the Republic of Djibouti. Correspondant de Academie, Feb1984 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]