Sterkfontein - Member 5: Calabrian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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9 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Carnivora | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Homo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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6 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: or A. africanus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Cercopithecidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Leporidae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix cf. africaeaustralis
Peters 1852
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9 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Canis cf. terblanchei
(Broom 1948)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| original and current combination Thos terblanchei | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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cf. Megantereon sp.
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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cf. Panthera leo
(Linnaeus 1758)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Proteles sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1824
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. burchelli
Gray 1824
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23 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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20 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: antelope size I | ||||||||||
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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151 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: antelope size II | ||||||||||
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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140 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: antelope size III | ||||||||||
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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7 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: alcelaphine-med. | ||||||||||
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Oreotragus major
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Damaliscus sp.
Sclater and Thomas 1894
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7 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: 142-Sterkfontein | ||||||||||
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Damaliscus sp.
Sclater and Thomas 1894
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: 141-Sterkfontein | ||||||||||
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Damaliscus cf. dorcas
(Pallas 1766)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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cf. Connochaetes sp.
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Hippotragini indet.
Sundevall 1845
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hippotragini | ||||||||||
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Makapania cf. broomi
Wells and Cooke 1956
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Taurotragus cf. oryx
(Pallas 1766)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Procaviidae
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Procavia sp.
Storr 1780
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudinidae indet.
Batsch 1788
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Varanus cf. niloticus
(Linnaeus 1766)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Aves | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Antidorcas cf. recki
(Schwartz 1932)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Adenota recki | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa |
| Coordinates: | 26.0° South, 27.7° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.2° South, 27.6° East |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Quaternary - Quaternary | *Epoch: | Pleistocene (minimum) |
| Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Transvaal | Formation: | Sterkfontein | Member: | 15 |
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max = ESR date, Min = age based on bovids radiometric intage_max, | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy siltstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: sandy loam, ETE lithology comments: some calcite lenses near middle, no weathered dolomite, abrupt contact but eroded and unconformable,poorly sorted seds | |
| Environment: | cave |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: ., ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: karstic, periodic flooding from surface=fine seds | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying |
| Collection size: | 413 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 479, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list: TM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 640, Middle Breccia, Sterkfontein - Member 5, | ||
| Database number: | 21822 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1995-10-13 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-10-13 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4867. | ETE 577 | T. C. Partridge. 1978. Re-appraisal of lithostratigraphy of Sterkfontein hominid site. Nature 275:282-287 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |