Klasies River Mouth Cave 1 LSA (Holocene of South Africa)

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

• ETE sed env 1: karst, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: coastal cave
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: brown to greyish brown silty sand

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia capensis Pallas 1766 Cape hyrax
 Carnivora - Otariidae
Arctocephalus pusillus Schreber 1778 brown fur seal
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Aonyx capensis Schinz 1821 African clawless otter
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas Schreber 1775 black-backed jackal
 Carnivora - Viverridae
Genetta sp. Cuvier 1816 civet
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821 dolphin
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Delphinidae
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Potamochoerus porcus Linnaeus 1758 red river hog
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
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
 Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852 Cape porcupine
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papio ursinus Kerr 1792 baboon