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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
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Eptesicus capensis house bat
Miniopterus schreibersi Natterer 1819 bend-winged bat | |
Rhinolophus capensis horseshoe bat | |
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax | |
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Elephantulus myurus Thomas and Schwann 1906 Eastern rock elephant shrew | |
Papio ursinus Kerr 1792 baboon | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Leporidae
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Gerbillus paeba, Tatera sp., Steatomys krebsii, Dasymys incomtus, Acomys sp., Mus minutoides, "Mastomys natalensis" = Epimys (Mastomys), "Aethomys namaquensis" = Epimys (Aethomys), Otomys angoniensis
Gerbillus paeba gerbil
Tatera sp. Lataste 1882 large naked-soled gerbil
Steatomys krebsii fat mouse
Dasymys incomtus mouse
Acomys sp. Geoffroy 1838 (African) spiny mice
Mus minutoides house mouse
"Aethomys namaquensis" = Epimys (Aethomys) rock rat
Otomys angoniensis mouse | |
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852 Cape porcupine | |
Cryptomys hottentotus Lesson 1826 common mole rat | |
Desmodillus auricularis rodent | |
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas Schreber 1775 black-backed jackal | |
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"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli, Equus capensis
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra
Equus capensis Broom 1909 horse | |
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog | |
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 | |
Suncus varilla Thomas 1895 Lesser dwarf shrew
Crocidura fuscomurina white-toothed shrew
Crocidura flavescens white-toothed shrew
Crocidura cyanea white-toothed shrew | |
Pedetes capensis | |
"Pedetes capensis" = Yerbua capensis
"Pedetes capensis" = Yerbua capensis Forster 1778 South African springhare |