ammonites
Omo - SH.1-2 (Pleistocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 560, Omo - SH.1-2,

Where: Ethiopia (5.0° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

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

Environment/lithology:

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: G13 = trans to lacustrine deltaic facies
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: cyclic sedimentation, sands up to silt-clay

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 409, 123, 104, 104, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, IPP, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Primary reference: H. B. Wesselman. 1984. The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia. Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution 17 [K. Behrensmeyer/K. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] more details

PaleoDB collection 21742: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 31.07.1997, edited by John Damuth