Also known as ETE Locality 739, Black Earth Cave,
Where: South Africa (27.6° S, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 24.5° E)
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: stratigraphy places site between Powerhouse Cave and Witkrans MSA; MSA deposits radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: cave
Collection methods: quarrying
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 485, 482, 481, 478, 454, 409, ; 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 21920: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.05.1997, edited by John Damuth
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 human | |
Papio sp. Erxleben 1777 baboon
Cercopithecus sp. Linnaeus 1758 monkey | |
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Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758 porcupine | |
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox
Lycaon sp. Brookes 1827 canid
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
Otocyon sp. Müller 1835 bat-eared fox | |
Mellivora sp. Storr 1780 ratel | |
Panthera sp. Oken 1816 cat | |
Proteles sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1824 hyaena | |
Diceros sp. Gray 1821 black rhino | |
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Procavia sp. Storr 1780 Cape hyrax | |
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791 aardvark | |
Reptilia | |
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Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard | |
Aves | |
Struthio camelus Linnaeus 1758 common ostrich |