Riversmead Shelter: Holocene, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Papio ursinus
(Kerr 1792)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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3 individuals | |||||||||
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Leporidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix africaeaustralis
Peters 1852
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6 individuals | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Vulpes chama
(Smith 1833)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 individuals | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Panthera pardus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 individual | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Herpestidae
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Cynictis penicillata
(Cuvier 1829)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
Herpestes ichneumon
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 individual | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Pholidota
- Manidae
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Manis temmincki
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1 individual | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus quagga
Boddaert 1785
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ETE occurrence; species: or burchelli | ||||||||||
Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 individual | |||||||||
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Rhinocerotidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 individual | |||||||||
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Bovidae | ||||||||||
Raphicerus campestris
(Thunberg 1811)
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3 individuals | |||||||||
original and current combination Antilope campestris | ||||||||||
Alcelaphus buselaphus
Pallas 1766
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Connochaetes gnou
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Pelea capreolus
(Forster 1790)
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original and current combination Antilopa capreolus | ||||||||||
Redunca fulvorufula
(Afzelius 1815)
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6 individuals | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Phacochoerus aethiopicus
(Pallas 1766)
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5 individuals | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Procaviidae
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Procavia capensis
(Pallas 1766)
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12 individuals | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tubulidentata
- Orycteropodidae
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Orycteropus afer
(Pallas 1766)
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5 individuals | |||||||||
unclassified
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Pedetes capensis
(Forster 1778)
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6 individuals | |||||||||
original and current combination Yerbua capensis | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Orange Free |
Coordinates: | 30.2° South, 25.9° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 30.2° South, 25.9° 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: 222645 +- 95 on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0 | |
Environment: | cave |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: karst, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: rock shelter |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
Collection size: | 0 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 488, 487, 485, 483, 482, 481, 478, 477, 456, 454, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list: |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 731, Riversmead Shelter, | ||
Database number: | 21912 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, R. Potts | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth, R. Potts |
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:
5214. | ETE 926 | R. G. Klein. 1979. Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 34:34-49 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |