Paternoster: Holocene, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Haematopodidae
Haematopus moquini Bonaparte 1856
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Laridae
Sterna bergii Lichtenstein 1823
recombined as Thalasseus bergii
Sterna hirundo Linnaeus 1758
Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein 1823
Reptilia - Spheniscidae
Spheniscus demersus (Linnaeus 1758)
Reptilia - Suliformes - Sulidae
Morus capensis (Lichtenstein 1823)
Reptilia - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax coronatus (Wahlberg 1855)
recombined as Microcarbo coronatus
Phalacrocorax capensis (Sparrman 1788)
Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus 1758)
Reptilia - Strigiformes - Strigidae
Bubo africanus (Temminck 1821)
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa
Coordinates: 32.8° South, 17.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.8° South, 17.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: 1000 to 870 ybp
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,anthropogenic,midden
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Metadata
Database number:177146
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-03-21 14:33:25 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2016-03-21 14:33:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
58527. G. Avery and L. G. Underhill. 1986. Seasonal exploitation of seabirds by Late Holocene coastal foragers: Analysis of modern and archaeological data from Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 13:339-360 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]