Leopard's Hill Cave: Pleistocene - Holocene, Zambia
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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19 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hyracoidea | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus saxatilis
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16 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Thryonomyidae
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Thryonomys swinderianus
(Temminck 1827)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix africaeaustralis
Peters 1852
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64 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis mesomelas
Schreber 1775
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Lupulella mesomelas | ||||||||||
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Otocyon megalotis
(Desmarest 1822)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Aonyx capensis
(Schinz 1821)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Mellivora capensis
(Schreber 1776)
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12 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis caracal
Schreber 1776
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| recombined as Caracal caracal | ||||||||||
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Felis serval
Schreber 1776
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| recombined as Caracal serval | ||||||||||
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Felis libyca
Forster 1780
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Herpestidae
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Mungos mungo
(Gmelin 1788)
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10 specimens | |||||||||
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Herpestes ichneumon
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta crocuta
(Erxleben 1777)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Viverridae
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Genetta genetta
(Linnaeus 1758)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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100 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Rhinocerotidae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus amphibius
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Aepyceros melampus
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Raphicerus sharpei
Thomas 1897
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Sylvicapra grimmia
(Linnaeus 1758)
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8 specimens | |||||||||
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Alcelaphus sp.
Blainville 1816
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Damaliscus lunatus
(Burchell 1823)
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Connochaetes taurinus
(Burchell 1823)
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85 specimens | |||||||||
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Gazella thomsoni
Gunther 1884
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Eudorcas thomsoni | ||||||||||
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Syncerus caffer
(Sparman 1779)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Bos caffer | ||||||||||
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Taurotragus oryx
(Pallas 1766)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Tragelaphus strepsiceros
(Pallas 1766)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Phacochoerus aethiopicus
(Pallas 1766)
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380 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Procaviidae
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Procavia capensis
(Pallas 1766)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Heterohyrax brucei
(Gray 1868)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tubulidentata
- Orycteropodidae
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Orycteropus afer
(Pallas 1766)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Zambia |
| Coordinates: | 15.4° South, 28.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 15.5° South, 28.7° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Epoch: | Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene |
| *International age/stage: | Holocene (minimum) |
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: dates on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: dolomite cave; weathered limestone | |
| Environment: | cave |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: karst, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Collection size: | 181 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 488, 487, 483, 482, 481, 478, 477, 456, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 743, Leopard's Hill Cave, | ||
| Database number: | 21924 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, R. Potts | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth, R. Potts |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1997-05-06 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-05-06 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5237. | ETE 949 | R. G. Klein. 1986. Later Stone Age Faunal Samples from Heuningneskrans Shelter (Transvaal) and Leopard's Hill Cave (Zambia). The South African Archaeological Bulletin 39:109-116 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |