Fossil Elephantoids

From the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar Depression, Ethiopia, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 83, part 1)

Jon E. Kalb, Assefa Mebrate, Doris Tischler

• Publisher: The American Philosophical Society Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780871692931
• Year: 1993

This is a print on demand publication. From 1975-1978, the Rift Valley Research Mission in Ethiopia recovered the most diverse collection of elephantoids known from a single area, from the Middle Awash Valley in the southwestern Afar Depression. This report describes in detail the elephantoids from the middle Awash region, from the pre-Hadar Adu-Asa & Sagantole formations to the post-Hadar Matabaietu & Wehaietu formations. It also reports on the fossil elephants from the Hadar Formation itself & notes elephantoids collected from deposits north of Hadar & south of the Middle Awash (the Chorora region). Also, this study describes the relationships of the Awash "Anancus" to other "Anancus" in Africa, & to other late surviving "gomphotheres." Extensive illustrations.

Table of contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Preface
• List of Figures
• Appendix Figures
• List of Tables
• Appendix Table
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Fossils and Collecting Localities
• Location and Stratigraphy
• Systematics History
• Terminology and Identification
• Abbreviations
• Systematic Description
• Discussion
• Concluding Remarks
• References
• Appendix
• Geographical and Stratigraphical Index
• Taxa Index
• Author Index