Also known as ETE Locality 644, Swartkrans - Channel Fill,
Where: South Africa (26.0° S, 27.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 27.5° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: 31-2 Member (Swartkrans Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Max= approx. 1.8 mya, min= approx. 1.0 mya, based on fauna
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous breccia and calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: C. K. Brain. 1967. The Transvaal Museum's fossil project at Swartkrans. South African Journal of Science 63:378-384 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 21826: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 17.10.1995, edited by John Damuth
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: indet. bone frag
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Procavia cf. capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax | |
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cf. Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard | |
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas Schreber 1775 black-backed jackal | |
Bovidae indet., Bovidae indet., Bovidae indet., Bovidae indet., Bovidae indet., Antidorcas cf. marsupialis, "Antidorcas bondi" = Gazella bondi
Antidorcas cf. marsupialis Zimmerman 1780 springbok
"Antidorcas bondi" = Gazella bondi Cooke and Wells 1951 gazelle | |
"Equus cf. burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
"Equus cf. burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra | |
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Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Leporidae
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"Australopithecus robustus" = Paranthropus robustus
"Australopithecus robustus" = Paranthropus robustus Broom 1938 australopithecine | |
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cf. Numida sp. Linnaeus 1766 helmeted guineafowl | |
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