Pinnacle Point: Middle Pleistocene, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Pema perna
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Helicion sp.
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Otariidae
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Arctocephalus pusillus
(Schreber 1778)
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Avery and Klein 2011 | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Oxystele sp.
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Gastropoda
- Turbinidae
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Turbo samaticus
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Gastropoda
- Patellidae
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Patellidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Scutellastra argenvillei
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritellidae indet.
Lovén 1847
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Gastropoda
- Littorinidae
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Nodilittorina sp.
von Martens 1897
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Buccinidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Burnupena sp.
Iredale 1918
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Mytilidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Choromytilus meridionalis
(Krauss 1848)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Donacidae
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Donax sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Polyplacophora
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Polyplacophora indet.
de Blainville 1816
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Thecostraca
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Cirripedia indet.
(Rafinesque 1816)
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Coronulidae
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Cetopirus complanatus
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Coronula sp.
Bruguière 1792
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Geography
| Country: | South Africa |
| Coordinates: | 34.2° South, 22.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° South, 22.1° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Chibanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | PP13B | ||
| Database number: | 115185 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-08-30 06:24:47 | Last modified: | 2020-03-10 10:33:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-08-30 06:24:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37304. | C. W. Marean, M. Bar-Matthews, J. Bernatchez, E. Fisher, P. Goldberg, A. I. R. Herries, Z. Jacobs, A. Jerardino, P. Karkanas, T. Minichillo, P. J. Nilssen, E. Thompson, I. Watts and H. M. Williams. 2007. Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene. Natures 449:905-909 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 37211 | G. A. Avery and R. G. Klein. 2011. Review of fossil phocid and otariid seals from the southern and western coasts of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 66(1):14-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 71857 | A. Collareta, C. W. Marean, A. Jerardino and M. Bosselaers. 2017. Cetopirus complanatus (Cirripedia: Coronulidae) from the late Middle Pleistocene human settlement of Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, South Africa). Zootaxa 4237(2):393-400 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |