Jisr Banat Yaqub: Middle Pleistocene - Quaternary, Israel

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus merckii
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. caballus Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus cf. scrofa Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus cf. elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Dama cf. mesopotamica Brooke 1875
Mammalia - Bovidae
cf. Bison priscus (Bojanus 1827)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon mediterraneus n. sp.
Hooijer 1960
Elephas trogontherii Pohlig 1885
recombined as Mammuthus trogontherii
see common names

Geography
Country:Israel
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 35.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 35.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary
*Period:Early/Lower Quaternary - Middle Quaternary *Epoch:Middle Pleistocene
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene - Quaternary
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local bed:Bed V
Stratigraphy comments: Dating is through fauna - "Second or Great Interglacial (Interpluvial) Mindel-Riss"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection method comments: Some of the collection may be at Hebrew University
Metadata
Database number:13490
Authorizer:W. Clyde Enterer:J. Finarelli, W. Clyde
Modifier:W. Clyde Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-04-05 05:30:55 Last modified:2004-05-21 11:00:06
Access level:the public Released:2002-04-05 05:30:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10567. 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]

Secondary references:

61065% 43200D. A. Hooijer. 1960. A Stegodon from Israel. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel 9(2-3):104-107 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/W. Clyde]
13490 T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]