Wonderwerk Cave (Pleistocene of South Africa)

Also known as ETE Locality 734, Wonderwerk Cave,

Where: South Africa (27.8° S, 23.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 23.4° E)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: >13000 ya=max; reworking of deposits;bones only in LSA layers;12380 +- 95 on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: cave

• ETE sed env 1: karst, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: tunnel-like solution cavity
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0

Collection methods: quarrying

• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 489, 488, 485, 483, 482, 481, 479, 478, 477, 456, 454, 121, ; 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 21915: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 21.05.1997, edited by John Damuth and Richard Potts

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
ETE occurrence; species: Chiroptera
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Miniopterus schreibersi Natterer 1819 bend-winged bat
 Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus capensis horseshoe bat
 Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax
 Tribosphenida - Chrysochloridae
Chrysochloridae indet. Gray 1825 golden mole
ETE occurrence; species: Chrysochloridae
 Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae
Macroscelididae indet. Bonaparte 1838 elephant shrew
ETE occurrence; species: Macroscelididae
Elephantulus myurus Thomas and Schwann 1906 Eastern rock elephant shrew
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papio ursinus Kerr 1792 baboon
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Leporidae
 Rodentia - Muridae
Tatera sp. Lataste 1882 large naked-soled gerbil
Acomys sp. Geoffroy 1838 (African) spiny mice
Mus minutoides house mouse
"Mastomys natalensis" = Epimys (Mastomys) rat
ETE occurrence; species: or coucha
"Aethomys namaquensis" = Epimys (Aethomys) rock rat
 Rodentia - Nesomyidae
 Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852 Cape porcupine
 Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Cryptomys hottentotus Lesson 1826 common mole rat
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas Schreber 1775 black-backed jackal
 Carnivora - Viverridae
Viverridae indet. Gray 1821 civet
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Viverridae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra
Equus capensis Broom 1909 horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Taurotragus oryx Pallas 1766 common eland
Damaliscus dorcas Pallas 1766 bontebok
Connochaetes gnou Zimmermann 1780 black wildebeest
Pelea capreolus Forster 1790 grey rhebok
Raphicerus sp. Smith 1827 antelope
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Suncus varilla Thomas 1895 Lesser dwarf shrew
Crocidura fuscomurina white-toothed shrew
Crocidura flavescens white-toothed shrew
Crocidura cyanea white-toothed shrew
Pedetes capensis
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"Pedetes capensis" = Yerbua capensis
"Pedetes capensis" = Yerbua capensis Forster 1778 South African springhare