Witkrans Cave-Upper (Holocene of South Africa)

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

• 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: 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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
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Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
ETE occurrence; species: Rodentia-small
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat
ETE occurrence; species: Felidae-small
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
ETE occurrence; species: small
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papio ursinus Kerr 1792 baboon
 Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
ETE occurrence; species: Squamata
Aves
 Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio camelus Linnaeus 1758 common ostrich