Limerock 2 (Holocene of South Africa)

Also known as ETE Locality 728, Limerock 2,

Where: Orange Free, South Africa (27.7° S, 24.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 24.3° E)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 221720 +- 40 on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: cave

• ETE sed env 1: karst, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0

Collection methods: quarrying

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 477, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: R. G. Klein. 1979. Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 34:34-49 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 21909: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.05.1997, edited by John Damuth and Richard Potts

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax
 Carnivora - Herpestidae
Cynictis penicillata Cuvier 1829 yellow mongoose
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felis libyca Forster 1780 African wildcat
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus quagga, "Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
Equus quagga Boddaert 1785 plains zebra
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Raphicerus campestris Thunberg 1811 steenbok
Sylvicapra grimmia Linnaeus 1758 common duiker
Hippotragus sp. Sundevall 1845 antelope
Connochaetes gnou Zimmermann 1780 black wildebeest
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766 hartebeest
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Leporidae
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papio ursinus Kerr 1792 baboon
Pedetes capensis
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"Pedetes capensis" = Yerbua capensis
"Pedetes capensis" = Yerbua capensis Forster 1778 South African springhare