Also known as ETE Locality 733, Witkrans Cave-Upper,
Where: South Africa (27.6° S, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 24.5° E)
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: LSA deposits;based on strat. and artifacts same age as Powerhouse cave and Little Witkrans;sites C14 dated to 1490 +-40 radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: cave
Collection methods: quarrying
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 485, 483, 482, 481, 479, 478, 477, 454, ; 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 21914: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.05.1997, edited by Richard Potts
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine | |
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Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog | |
Papio ursinus Kerr 1792 baboon | |
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax | |
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Aves | |
Struthio camelus Linnaeus 1758 common ostrich |