Where: South Africa (26.0° S, 27.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.0° S, 27.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Based upon the physical state of the bones themselves as well as the clear lack of fossilisation as is typical on the hominin bones also found on the surface of the cave, we hypothesise that these remains are modern, or much closer to the present time, and not directly associated temporally with the H. naledi remains, likely being considerably younger. The appearance of preservation of these bones is clearly different from the hominin material found in the chamber." Deposits containing hominin remains dated to between 236 kya and 335 kya, so Late Pleistocene or Holocene age assigned here (although late Middle Pleistocene possible).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: University of the Witwatersrand

Primary reference: A. Kruger and S. Badenhorst. 2018. Remains of a barn owl (Tyto alba) from the Dinaledi Chamber, Rising Star Cave, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 114:5152 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 197930: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2018

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