Where: Israel (33.0° N, 35.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 35.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Dating is through fauna - "Second or Great Interglacial (Interpluvial) Mindel-Riss"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
• Some of the collection may be at Hebrew University
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13490: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 05.04.2002, edited by Will Clyde
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Sus cf. scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
Cervus cf. elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
Dama cf. mesopotamica Brooke 1875 Persian fallow deer | |
cf. Bison priscus Bojanus 1827 bison | |
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo | |
Dicerorhinus merckii rhinoceros | |
Equus cf. caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
"Elephas trogontherii" = Mammuthus trogontherii, Stegodon mediterraneus n. sp.
"Elephas trogontherii" = Mammuthus trogontherii Pohlig 1885 mammoth
Stegodon mediterraneus n. sp. elephant |