Jisr Banat Yaqub (Pleistocene to of Israel)

Where: Israel (33.0° N, 35.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 35.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Dating is through fauna - "Second or Great Interglacial (Interpluvial) Mindel-Riss"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• Some of the collection may be at Hebrew University

Primary reference: D. A. Hooijer. 1959. Fossil mammals from Jisr Banat Yaqub, south of Lake Huleh, Israel. Bulletin of the Research Council of Isreal, Section D, Botany 8G(4):177-199 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/W. Clyde]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13490: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 05.04.2002, edited by Will Clyde

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus cf. scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus cf. elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
Dama cf. mesopotamica Brooke 1875 Persian fallow deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
cf. Bison priscus Bojanus 1827 bison
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon mediterraneus n. sp., "Elephas trogontherii" = Mammuthus trogontherii
Stegodon mediterraneus n. sp. elephant
"Elephas trogontherii" = Mammuthus trogontherii Pohlig 1885 mammoth