Also known as ETE Locality 743, Leopard's Hill Cave,
Where: Zambia (15.4° S, 28.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.5° S, 28.7° E)
When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: dates on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: cave
Collection methods: quarrying
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 488, 487, 483, 482, 481, 478, 477, 456, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: R. G. Klein. 1986. Later Stone Age Faunal Samples from Heuningneskrans Shelter (Transvaal) and Leopard's Hill Cave (Zambia). The South African Archaeological Bulletin 39:109-116 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 21924: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 06.05.1997, edited by John Damuth and Richard Potts
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Heterohyrax brucei Gray 1868 rock hyrax
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax | |
Orycteropus afer Pallas 1766 aardvark | |
Mungos mungo Gmelin 1788 banded mongoose
Herpestes ichneumon Linnaeus 1758 Egyptian mongoose | |
Crocuta crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena | |
Genetta genetta Linnaeus 1758 common genet | |
Felis libyca Forster 1780 African wildcat
"Felis serval" = Caracal serval Schreber 1776 serval
"Felis caracal" = Caracal caracal Schreber 1776 caracal | |
Mellivora capensis Schreber 1776 honey badger
Aonyx capensis Schinz 1821 African clawless otter | |
Otocyon megalotis, "Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas
Otocyon megalotis Desmarest 1822 bat-eared fox
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas Schreber 1775 black-backed jackal | |
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Rhinocerotidae
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Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo | |
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog | |
Aepyceros melampus, Alcelaphus sp., Connochaetes taurinus, Damaliscus lunatus, Raphicerus sharpei, "Gazella thomsoni" = Eudorcas thomsoni, Sylvicapra grimmia, Syncerus caffer, Taurotragus oryx, Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Aepyceros melampus Lichtenstein 1812 impala
Alcelaphus sp. Blainville 1816 hartebeest
Connochaetes taurinus Burchell 1823 blue wildebeest
Damaliscus lunatus Burchell 1823 common tsessebe
Raphicerus sharpei Thomas 1897 Sharpe's grysbok
"Gazella thomsoni" = Eudorcas thomsoni Gunther 1884 Thomson's gazelle
Sylvicapra grimmia Linnaeus 1758 common duiker
Syncerus caffer Sparman 1779 African buffalo
Taurotragus oryx Pallas 1766 common eland
Tragelaphus strepsiceros Pallas 1766 greater kudu | |
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852 Cape porcupine | |
Thryonomys swinderianus Temminck 1827 greater cane rat | |
Lepus saxatilis hare |