Little Witkrans: Holocene, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus quagga
Boddaert 1785
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Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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| recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Orange Free |
| Coordinates: | 26.6° South, 24.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.6° South, 24.9° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Epoch: | holocene |
| *International age/stage: | Holocene (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 411830 +- 50; 1490 +- 40; dates on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: ash and limestone | |
| Environment: | cave |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: karst, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: travertine deposits | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Collection size: | 0 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 477, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 729, Little Witkrans, | ||
| Database number: | 21910 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1997-05-13 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-05-13 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5213. | ETE 925 | F. E. Peabody. 1954. Travertines and Cave Deposits of the Kaap Escarpment of South Africa, and the Type Locality of Australopithecus Africanus Dart. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 65:671-706 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |