Witkrans Cave-Lower (Pleistocene of South Africa)

Also known as ETE Locality 732, Witkrans Cave-Lower,

Where: South Africa (27.6° S, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 24.5° E)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: MSA deposits; dates based on stone tools 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: rubble and limestone

Collection methods: quarrying

• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 487, 485, 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, 454, 81, ; 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 21913: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.05.1997

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
ETE occurrence; species: Rodentia-small
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papio sp.
Papio sp. Erxleben 1777 baboon
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet.
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat
ETE occurrence; species: Felidae-small
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
ETE occurrence; species: small
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet.
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE occurrence; species: Antilopinae-small
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Phacochoerus aethiopicus
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog
 Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia sp.
Procavia sp. Storr 1780 Cape hyrax
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
ETE occurrence; species: Chelonia
 Squamata - Varanidae
Varanus sp.
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard