Gesher Benot Ya'aqov - the 'Bar', Jordan Valley: Pleistocene, Israel
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| 1 tarsometatarsus | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
| synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
| 6 carapace fragments. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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6 specimens | |||||||||
| 3 tusk fragments, 1 tooth fragment, 1 molar root fragment and an atlas of ? elephant. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus cf. elephas
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| 1 mandible fragment. | ||||||||||
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Dama cf. mesopotamica
Brooke 1875
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| 1 metatarsal shaft fragment, 1 calcaneum, 1 frontal with antler fragment, 1 distal radius, 1 mandible fragment with pm3 deciduous (?) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella gazella
(Pallas 1766)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| 1 astragalus, 1 frontal with horncore. | ||||||||||
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Capra sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| 1 distal humerus fragment, gnawed or eroded. | ||||||||||
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Bos sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| 1 proximal tibia fragment. | ||||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Potamidae
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Potamon cf. potamios
Olivier 1804
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Klaus and Gross 2010 | |||||||||
| 5033 freshwater crab fragments of 1-40 mm size | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Israel |
| Coordinates: | 33.1° North, 35.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 35.5° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Benot Ya'aqov | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The bar is made up of limnic-fluvial rocks in the river bed, found during a period of low water flow. The bar is 220m long and 60m wide (at its widest point). There are 4 stratigraphic units, all of which contain bones and artefacts. These units are not differentiated in the faunal list. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | anthropogenic |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 43 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: This excavation took place some 500m downstream from the previous digs at Gesher (e.g. Stekelis). Unidentifiable speciemsn were grouped into size classes ranging from elephant to gazella, and a fragment catagory. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Jisr Banot Ya'aqov - the bar | ||
| Database number: | 42865 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner, J. Wolfe | Enterer: | H. O'Regan, J. Wolfe |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2004-08-06 05:14:27 | Last modified: | 2004-08-06 08:20:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-08-06 05:14:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11377. | PACED | N. Goren-Inbar, S. Belitzky, Y. Goren, R. Rabinovich, and I. Saragusti. 1992. Gesher Benot Ya'aqov - the "Bar": an Acheulean Assemblage. Geoarchaeology 7(1):27-40 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
Secondary references:
| 80458 | S. Klaus and M. Gross. 2010. Synopsis of the fossil freshwater crabs of Europe (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamidae). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 256(1):39-59 [J. Wolfe/J. Wolfe] |