Where: South Africa (25.9° S, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° S, 27.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• "immediately above a flowstone layer with a U-Pb date of 2.026 +/- 0.021 Ma. The flowstone has a reversed paleomagnetic signature and the overlying hominin-bearing sediments are of normal polarity, indicating deposition during the 1.95- to 1.78-Ma Olduvai Subchron"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. H. G. Dirks, J. M. Kibii, B. F. Kuhn, C. Steininger, S. E. Churchill, J. D. Kramers, R. Pickering, D. L. Farber, A.-S. Mériaux, A. I. R. Herries, G. C. P. King and L. R. Berger. 2010. Geological setting and age of Australopithecus sediba from southern Africa. Science 328:205-208 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 95150: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.04.2010, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare | |
Australopithecus sediba n. sp.1
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig | |
Oreotragus sp., Alcelaphini indet., Megalotragus sp., Tragelaphus cf. strepsiceros, Tragelaphus cf. scriptus
Oreotragus sp. Smith 1834 klipspringer
Megalotragus sp. van Hoepen 1932 antelope
Tragelaphus cf. strepsiceros Pallas 1766 greater kudu
Tragelaphus cf. scriptus Pallas 1766 bushbuck | |
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Parahyaena brunnea Thunberg 1820 brown hyaena | |
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Vulpes skinneri n. sp.2 Hartstone-Rose et al. 2013 fox UW 88-812 (holotype), posterior left mandibular fragment including P4 and M1
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