Wonderwerk Cave: Pleistocene, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Mysorex varius
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
ETE occurrence; species: Chiroptera
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia capensis (Pallas 1766)
10 individuals
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae
Macroscelididae indet. Bonaparte 1838
ETE occurrence; species: Macroscelididae
Elephantulus myurus Thomas and Schwann 1906
present category
Mammalia - Chrysochloridae
Chrysochloridae indet. Gray 1825
ETE occurrence; species: Chrysochloridae
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus capensis
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus capensis
present category
Miniopterus schreibersi Natterer 1819
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Viverridae indet. Gray 1821
2 individuals
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Viverridae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis mesomelas Schreber 1775
4 individuals
recombined as Lupulella mesomelas
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus capensis Broom 1909
3 individuals
Equus burchelli Gray 1824
4 individuals
recombined as Equus quagga burchelli
Mammalia - Suidae
Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)
2 individuals
Mammalia - Bovidae
Connochaetes gnou (Zimmermann 1780)
4 individuals
Damaliscus dorcas (Pallas 1766)
4 individuals
Raphicerus sp. Smith 1827
3 individuals
Pelea capreolus (Forster 1790)
2 individuals
original and current combination Antilopa capreolus
Taurotragus oryx (Pallas 1766)
2 individuals
Mammalia - Soricidae
Suncus varilla Thomas 1895
present category
Crocidura fuscomurina
Crocidura flavescens
Crocidura cyanea
Mammalia - Rodentia - Nesomyidae
Mystromys albicaudatus
Malacothrix typica
Dendromus melanotis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Aethomys namaquensis
Dasymys incomtus
Mastomys natalensis
ETE occurrence; species: or coucha
Acomys sp. Geoffroy 1838
Tatera sp. Lataste 1882
Gerbillus paeba
Otomys angoniensis
Mus minutoides
Steatomys krebsii
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Desmodillus auricularis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852
5 individuals
Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Cryptomys hottentotus (Lesson 1826)
present category
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
7 individuals
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Leporidae
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papio ursinus (Kerr 1792)
2 individuals
unclassified
Pedetes capensis (Forster 1778)
2 individuals
original and current combination Yerbua capensis
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa
Coordinates: 27.8° South, 23.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.9° South, 23.4° East
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Epoch:Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene
*International age/stage:Modern (minimum)
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: >13000 ya=max; reworking of deposits;bones only in LSA layers;12380 +- 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: tunnel-like solution cavity
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Collection size:0 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 489, 488, 485, 483, 482, 481, 479, 478, 477, 456, 454, 121, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 734, Wonderwerk Cave,
Database number:21915
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, R. Potts Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth, R. Potts
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:1997-05-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:1997-05-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

5214.ETE 926R. 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]