Onink: Holocene, Swaziland
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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4 specimens | |||||||||
Cercopithecus aethiops
(Linnaeus 1758)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Chlorocebus aethiops | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus saxatilis
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84 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Thryonomyidae
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Thryonomys swinderianus
(Temminck 1827)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix africaeaustralis
Peters 1852
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Aepyceros melampus
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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Oreotragus oreotragus
(Zimmermann 1783)
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9 specimens | |||||||||
Ourebia ourebi
(Zimmerman 1783)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
original and current combination Antilope ourebi | ||||||||||
Raphicerus sharpei
Thomas 1897
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Cephalophus monticola
Thunberg 1789
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Sylvicapra grimmia
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Alcelaphus sp.
Blainville 1816
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Damaliscus lunatus
(Burchell 1823)
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Gazella thomsoni
Gunther 1884
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recombined as Eudorcas thomsoni | ||||||||||
Redunca fulvorufula
(Afzelius 1815)
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Syncerus caffer
(Sparman 1779)
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original and current combination Bos caffer | ||||||||||
Taurotragus oryx
(Pallas 1766)
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Tragelaphus scriptus
(Pallas 1766)
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Tragelaphus strepsiceros
(Pallas 1766)
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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19 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Suidae | ||||||||||
Potamochoerus porcus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Procaviidae
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Procavia capensis
(Pallas 1766)
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18 specimens | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Swaziland |
Coordinates: | 26.8° South, 31.1° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 26.8° South, 31.8° East |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Epoch: | holocene |
*International age/stage: | Modern (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: late Holocene; age based on artifacts radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: dolomite shelter | |
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, 478, 477, 456, 454, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list: |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 746, Onink, | ||
Database number: | 21927 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, R. Potts | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, 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:
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] |