First Family: Pliocene, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Crocodylidae
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Crocodylidae indet.
Cuvier 1807
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| ETE occurrence; species: Crocodylidae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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| ETE occurrence; species: Rodentia | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Australopithecus afarensis
Johanson et al. 1978
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 11.2° North, 40.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.0° North, 40.3° East |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary - Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene - Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Hadar | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty claystone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: . | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: ab_chan_fill ETE event: paleosol, ETE env comment: 0 | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 216 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 1539, First Family, | ||
| Database number: | 22664 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 2001-04-17 01:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-04-17 01:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4845. | ETE 555 | D. C. Johanson, M. Taieb, and Y. Coppens. 1982. Pliocene hominids from the Hadar Formation, Ethiopia (1973-1977): Stratigraphic, chronologic and paleoenvironmental contexts with notes on hominid morphology and systematics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 57:373-402 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |