Also known as ETE Locality 737, Klasies River Mouth Cave 1 LSA,
Where: South Africa (34.1° S, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° S, 24.4° E)
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: LSA Deposits; 2285 +- 105; 4755 +- 95; dates on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: cave; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate, anthropogenic
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 485, 482, 481, 478, 477, 454, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: R. G. Klein. 1976. The Mammalian Fauna of the Klasies River Mouth Sites, Southern Cape Province, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 31:75-98 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 21918: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.05.1997, edited by John Damuth and Richard Potts
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax | |
Arctocephalus pusillus Schreber 1778 brown fur seal | |
Aonyx capensis Schinz 1821 African clawless otter | |
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas Schreber 1775 black-backed jackal | |
Genetta sp. Cuvier 1816 civet | |
Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard | |
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo | |
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Potamochoerus porcus Linnaeus 1758 red river hog | |
Raphicerus melanotis, Pelea capreolus, Cephalophus monticola, Alcelaphus buselaphus, Redunca fulvorufula, Taurotragus oryx, Syncerus caffer
Raphicerus melanotis Thunberg 1811 Cape grysbok
Pelea capreolus Forster 1790 grey rhebok
Cephalophus monticola Thunberg 1789 blue duiker
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766 hartebeest
Redunca fulvorufula Afzelius 1815 mountain reedbuck
Taurotragus oryx Pallas 1766 common eland
Syncerus caffer Sparman 1779 African buffalo | |
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852 Cape porcupine | |
Papio ursinus Kerr 1792 baboon |