Blue Pool Cave (Holocene of South Africa)

Also known as ETE Locality 677, Blue Pool Cave,

Where: Orange Free, South Africa (27.6° S, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 24.6° E)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: age based on nearby site, Powerhouse Cave; Late Stone Age radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: cave; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: karst, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: fluvial and human formed deposits
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: sand with charcal; black soil; brown earth

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying

• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 487, 482, 481, 478, 477, 81, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: F. E. Peabody. 1954. Travertines and Cave Deposits of the Kaap Escarpment of South Africa, and the Type Locality of Australopithecus Africanus Dart. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 65:671-706 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 21858: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.05.1997, edited by Richard Potts

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
 Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio camelus
Struthio camelus Linnaeus 1758 common ostrich
Mammalia
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Mammalia indet., Mammalia indet., Mammalia indet.
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
ETE occurrence; species: crocidurines
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
ETE occurrence; species: microchiropterans
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
ETE occurrence; species: Rodentia-small
 Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia capensis
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet.
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE occurrence; species: Antilopinae-small