Also known as ETE Locality 527, Melkbos,
Where: South Africa (33.7° S, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 33.7° S, 18.4° E)
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0 radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min; Middle Stone Age
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 418, 418, 417, 411, 409, 123, 104, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: Q. B. Hendey. 1968. The Melkbos Site: An Upper Pleistocene fossil occurrence in the south-western Cape Province. Annals of the South African Museum 52(4):89-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 21709: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.08.1995, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aves | |
"Struthio australis" = Struthio camelus australis2
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Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines2
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Mammalia | |
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Diceros simus black rhino | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Redunca aff. arundinum2, cf. Connochaetes sp.2, Antidorcas cf. marsupialis2, Raphicerus sp.2, cf. Hippotragus sp., Syncerus sp., Tragelaphus strpsiceros2, Taurotragus oryx2
cf. Hippotragus sp. Sundevall 1845 antelope
Syncerus sp. Hodgson 1847 African buffalo | |
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"cf. Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas2
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"Lobodon carcinophagus" = Lobodon carcinophaga1
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"Hyaena brunnea" = Parahyaena brunnea2
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