Wadi Maebele
Basic information
Sample name: Wadi Maebele

Sample aka: Buia; MHB

Reference: B. Martínez-Navarro, L. Rook, A. Segid, D. Yosief, M. P. Ferretti, J. Shoshani, T. M. Tecle, and Y. Libsekal. 2004. The large fossil mammals from Buia (Eritrea): systematics, biochronology and paleoenvironments. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 110:61-88 [ER 3870]
Geography
Country: Eritrea


Coordinate: 14.70° N, 39.94° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Formation: Alat

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Max Ma: 1.07

Min Ma: 0.98

Age basis: paleomag

Geography comments: "south of Wade Maebele, north of Wadi Ghersaloita" (coordinate estimated based on Fig. 3 in Abbate et al. 2004)
Abbate et al. (2004) indicate that most of the Buia material is from the Alat Formation, which is bounded by 1.07 and 0.98 Ma by Albianelli and Napoleone (2004) based on magnetostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy

Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: lake deposit

Habitat comments: the Alat Formation is deltaic and lacustrine and includes "silts, clays, thin calcareous beds, and ash layers" plus "sandy bodies" higher in the section (Abbate et al. 2004)
there is no description of the taphonomy of this site in Fiore et al. (2004)

Methods
Life forms: ungulates

Sample size: 6 specimens

Years: 1995 - 1997, 2000

Sampling comments: it is not clear whether the fossils are mostly excavated or surface finds

Metadata
Sample number: 4247

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-04-22 17:04:51

Modified: 2023-04-22 07:04:51

Abundance distribution
5 species
4 singletons
total count 6
extrapolated richness: 50.0
Fisher's α: 14.116
geometric series k: 0.8409
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7333
Shannon's H: 1.5607
Good's u: 0.3939
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Hippopotamus gorgops1
less one specimen of karumensis reassigned by Pandolfi et al. (2023)
Hippopotamus aff. karumensis1
see Pandolfi et al. (2023)
Hexaprotodon sp.1
Kolpochoerus olduvaiensis1
Tragelaphus cf. spekii254 kg browser-grazer
"Tragelaphus cf. spekei"