Also known as ETE Locality 730, Powerhouse Cave,
Where: Orange Free, South Africa (27.6° S, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 24.6° E)
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 403680 +- 60; 2250+- 65; dates 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: F. E. Peabody. 1954. Travertines and Cave Deposits of the Kaap Escarpment of South Africa, and the Type Locality of Australopithecus Africanus Dart. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 65:671-706 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 21911: 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 | |
Mellivora capensis Schreber 1776 honey badger | |
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
Vulpes chama Smith 1833 Cape fox | |
Felis libyca Forster 1780 African wildcat | |
Cynictis penicillata Cuvier 1829 yellow mongoose | |
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog | |
Taurotragus oryx, Sylvicapra grimmia, Redunca fulvorufula, Oreotragus oreotragus, Raphicerus campestris, Antidorcas marsupialis, Alcelaphus buselaphus, Connochaetes gnou
Taurotragus oryx Pallas 1766 common eland
Sylvicapra grimmia Linnaeus 1758 common duiker
Redunca fulvorufula Afzelius 1815 mountain reedbuck
Oreotragus oreotragus Zimmermann 1783 klipspringer
Raphicerus campestris Thunberg 1811 steenbok
Antidorcas marsupialis Zimmerman 1780 springbok
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766 hartebeest
Connochaetes gnou Zimmermann 1780 black wildebeest | |
Equus quagga, "Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Rhinocerotidae
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Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Leporidae
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Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852 Cape porcupine | |
Papio ursinus Kerr 1792 baboon | |
Pedetes capensis | |
"Pedetes capensis" = Yerbua capensis
"Pedetes capensis" = Yerbua capensis Forster 1778 South African springhare |