Jisr Banat Yaqub: Middle Pleistocene - Quaternary, Israel
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus merckii
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. caballus
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus cf. scrofa
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus amphibius
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus cf. elaphus
Linnaeus 1758
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Dama cf. mesopotamica
Brooke 1875
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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cf. Bison priscus
(Bojanus 1827)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Stegodon mediterraneus n. sp.
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Hooijer 1960 | ||||||
Elephas trogontherii
Pohlig 1885
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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:
6106 | 5% 43200 | D. 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] |