Sterkfontein - Member 6 (Pleistocene of South Africa)

Also known as ETE Locality 641, Sterkfontein - Member 6, Upper Breccia,

Where: South Africa (26.0° S, 27.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 27.6° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: 16 Member (Sterkfontein Formation), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0

Environment/lithology: cave

• ETE sed env 1: ., ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: karstic,periodic sheetfloods from surface-fine sed
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Bed A: basal calcite flowstone, Bed B: red-brown sandy loam, poorly sorted, foreign stone, = Upper Breccia

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying

• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 477, ; ETE museum list: TM

Primary reference: T. C. Partridge. 1978. Re-appraisal of lithostratigraphy of Sterkfontein hominid site. Nature 275:282-287 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 21823: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.10.1995

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Mammalia
  -
Mammalia indet.
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Carnivora
 Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia cf. capensis
Procavia cf. capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus cf. burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
"Equus cf. burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet., Bovidae indet., Bovidae indet., "Antidorcas bondi" = Gazella bondi, Damaliscus cf. dorcas
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: antelope size I
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: antelope size II
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: antelope size III
"Antidorcas bondi" = Gazella bondi Cooke and Wells 1951 gazelle
Damaliscus cf. dorcas Pallas 1766 bontebok
 Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix africaeaustralis
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852 Cape porcupine
Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Accipitridae indet.
Accipitridae indet. Viellot 1816 hawk
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: large raptor