Hajj Creiem (Pleistocene of Libya)

Also known as ETE Locality 682, Hajj Creiem,

Where: Libya (32.7° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 22.7° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: geologic age not fixed, based on fauna and artifacts; during the early part of the last glaciation radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: near margin of now dry pool at Wadi Gahham
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: lacustrine marls and silts

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 485, 482, 481, 478, 477, 454, 121, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: R. G. Klein and K. Scott. 1986. Re-Analysis of Faunal Assemblages from the Haua Fteah and other Late Quaternary Archaeological Site in Cyrenaican Libya. Journal of Archaeological Science 13:515-542 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Wagner]more details

PaleoDB collection 21863: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.05.1997, edited by John Damuth

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet., "Gazella thomsoni" = Eudorcas thomsoni, Ammotragus lervia
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae
"Gazella thomsoni" = Eudorcas thomsoni Gunther 1884 Thomson's gazelle
Ammotragus lervia Pallas 1777 barbary sheep
 Carnivora - Herpestidae
Herpestes ichneumon
Herpestes ichneumon Linnaeus 1758 Egyptian mongoose