Plovers Lake Cave (internal deposits) (Pleistocene of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (26.0° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 26.0° S, 27.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• The site includes internal and external deposits. The external deposits are close to 1 Myr in age, and the internal Middle Stone Age deposits are between 62.9 and 88.7 kyr.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: University of the Witwatersrand

Primary reference: T. A. Stidham. 2008. The first fossil of the Congo peafowl (Galliformes: Afropavo). South African Journal of Science 104:511-512 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 195040: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Afropavo congensis Chapin 1936 Congo peacock
PV 12185