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:
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant | |
Ceratotherium simum Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros | |
Equus capensis, "Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
Equus capensis Broom 1909 horse
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra | |
Redunca arundinum, Alcelaphini indet., Megalotragus priscus, Antidorcas marsupialis, Pelorovis antiquus, Syncerus caffer, Taurotragus oryx
Redunca arundinum Boddaert 1785 southern reedbuck
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 | |
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog | |
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo |