ammonites
Omo - L.464 (Pleistocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 482, Omo - L.464,

Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: F Member (Shungura Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff F, Min = Tuff G radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: silty sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: braided stream deposits
• ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: cyclic units, fining upward

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 432, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Primary reference: J. de Heinzelin. 1983. The Omo Group: Archives of the International Omo Research Expedition. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Annales Series 8, Tervuren, Belgique 85 [K. Behrensmeyer/K. Behrensmeyer/P. Muhl] more details

PaleoDB collection 21664: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 28.07.1997