Also known as ETE Locality 1179, Cercopithecid Breccia, Pink stony Breccia, Upper Phase IBreccia, Makapansgat - Mbr. 4,
Where: South Africa (24.2° S, 29.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° S, 28.6° E)
When: 14 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
Collection methods: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 933, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: R. F. Ewer. 1958. The fossil suidae of Makapansgat. Journal of Zoology 130(3):329-371 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 22355: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.08.1999, edited by John Damuth
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Insecta | |
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cf. Trogidae indet. MacLeay 1819 hide beetle ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: cf. Trogidae
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| Mammalia | |
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Procavia transvaalensis Shaw 1937 Cape hyrax
Procavia antiqua Broom 1934 Cape hyrax | |
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Simatherium kohllarseni antelope
Parmularius braini Vrba 1977 antelope | |
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Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard | |
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Crocuta crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena | |
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Hystrix makapanensis porcupine
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852 Cape porcupine
Xenohystrix crassidens porcupine | |
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Gypsorhynchus makapani mole rat | |
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Australopithecus africanus Dart 1925 australopithecine | |
"Simopithecus darti" = Theropithecus
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