Where: Afar, Ethiopia (11.6° N, 40.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 40.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian to Piacenzian (3.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• Besides the Hinti Mageta Tuff at the base of the Seraitu lake beds, two tuffs within the lake sediments provide precise ages: MLP14/SR-6 at 2.576 ± 0.008 Ma and MLP14/GOY-2 at 2.485 ± 0.018Ma. In addition to the chronological information from these markers, two sections within the Seraitu lake beds zone record a magnetostratigraphic reversal which we interpret to be the Gauss/Matuyama, dated to 2.59 Ma (Fig. 1; section JGW14-10 and in section JGW14-6; see Supplementary Figs. 6–8, Supple- mentary Table 5).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; unlithified claystone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Research at Mille-Logya started in 2012 and our team conducted systematic geological and paleontological surveys in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019.

Primary reference: Z. Alemseged, J. G. Wynn, D. Geraads, D. Reed, W. A. Barr, R. Bobe, S. P. McPherron, A. Deino, M. Alene, M. J. Sier, D. Roman and J. Mohan. 2020. Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins. Nature Communications 11(2480) [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224657: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 25.03.2022

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