Langebaanweg - Anyskop Hill (Miocene to of South Africa)

Also known as ETE Locality 1046, Langebaanweg, Langebaanweg - Anyskop Hill,

Where: South Africa (33.0° S, 18.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.5° S, 16.5° E)

When: Bredasdorp & Varswater Formation, Miocene to Miocene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Dating by correl w/radiom dated sites

Environment/lithology: coastal

• ETE sed env 1: coastal, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: "coastal marine, estuarine, eolian envts"
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: calcretes and gravelly to muddy sands

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 632, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: K. W. Butzer. 1973. On the sedimentary sequence of Langebaanweg "E" Quarry, Cape Province, South Africa. Quaternaria 17:237-243 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 22223: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 04.06.1999, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Phortion occidentalis
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - name shift
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Anomalina indet. d'Orbigny 1826
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium indet. Monfort 1808
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE occurrence; species: Bovidae
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
aff. Plesiobalaenoptera sp. Bisconti 2010 rorqual
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion baardi hipparionine horse
Gastropoda
 Stylommatophora - Acavidae
Trigonephrus indet. slug
ETE occurrence; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name