Makapansgat-Mbrs 3/4/5 (Pliocene of South Africa)

Also known as ETE Locality 1176, "Makapansgat - Mbrs 3, 4, & 5",

Where: South Africa (24.2° S, 29.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° S, 28.6° E)

When: "3, 4, & 5" Member (Makapansgat Formation), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: "Fauna /paleomag data sugg age =~3.0 Ma,range=3.32 to 2.6 Ma"

Environment/lithology: cave

• ETE sed env 1: trap, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "Mbr 3,4,5:loam"

Collection methods: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 930, 926, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: G. L. Webb. 1965. Notes on some chalicothere remains from Makapansgat. Palaeontologia Africana 9:49-68 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details

PaleoDB collection 22352: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Hippotragus cookei
Hippotragus cookei Vrba 1987 antelope
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Metaschizotherium transvaalensis
Insecta
 Diptera - Calliphoridae
Calliphoridae indet.
Calliphoridae indet. Brauer and von Bergenstamm 1889 blow fly
ETE occurrence; species: Brachycera