ammonites
USNO - White Sands (Pliocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 572, USNO - White Sands,

Where: Ethiopia (5.3° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 5.1° N, 35.7° E)

When: max: zone min: zone zone, U Member (USNO Formation), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max = U-14, bottom of Mammoth (paleomag), Min = U - 16/17, bottom of Kaena (paleomag)

Environment/lithology: sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: fluvial deltaic, marshes and swamps
• ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: gravelly, coarse sand, minor variations from Brown sands

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

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

Primary reference: M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [K. Behrensmeyer/K. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] more details

PaleoDB collection 21754: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 30.08.1995, edited by John Damuth and Erin Leckey