Power's Site (Pleistocene of South Africa)

Also known as ETE Locality 747, Power's Site,

Where: South Africa (28.5° S, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° S, 24.4° E)

When: Rietputs Formation, Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: dates based on fauna and artifacts radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology:

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Vaal gravels; coarse sand with abundant cobbels

Collection methods: quarrying

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 488, 487, 485, 482, 479, 478, 477, 456, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: R. G. Klein. 1979. Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 34:34-49 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 21928: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.05.1997, edited by John Damuth

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus capensis Broom 1909 horse
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Redunca arundinum Boddaert 1785 southern reedbuck
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini
Megalotragus priscus Broom 1909 antelope
Antidorcas marsupialis Zimmerman 1780 springbok
Pelorovis antiquus Duvernoy 1851 antelope
Syncerus caffer Sparman 1779 African buffalo
Taurotragus oryx Pallas 1766 common eland
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo