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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax | |
Equus quagga, "Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
Equus quagga Boddaert 1785 plains zebra
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra | |
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog | |
Hippotragus sp., Raphicerus campestris, Sylvicapra grimmia, Connochaetes gnou, Alcelaphus buselaphus
Hippotragus sp. Sundevall 1845 antelope
Raphicerus campestris Thunberg 1811 steenbok
Sylvicapra grimmia Linnaeus 1758 common duiker
Connochaetes gnou Zimmermann 1780 black wildebeest
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766 hartebeest | |
Felis libyca Forster 1780 African wildcat | |
Cynictis penicillata Cuvier 1829 yellow mongoose | |
Papio ursinus Kerr 1792 baboon | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Leporidae
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Pedetes capensis | |
"Pedetes capensis" = Yerbua capensis
"Pedetes capensis" = Yerbua capensis Forster 1778 South African springhare |