Hondeklip Bay: Pliocene, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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? Creodonta indet.
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| ? creodont | ||||||||||
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Odontoceti indet.
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| cetacean (large-toothed sp.) | ||||||||||
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Osteichthyes indet.
(Huxley 1880)
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Reptilia
- Struthioniformes
- Struthionidae
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Struthionidae indet.
Vigors 1825
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| ostrich | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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| gomphothere | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Phocidae
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Phocidae indet.
(Gray 1821)
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| original and current combination Phocadae | ||||||||||
| seal | ||||||||||
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Homiphoca capensis
(Hendey and Repenning 1972)
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Avery and Klein 2011 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Myacyon kiptalami
(Morales and Pickford 2005)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium praecox
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Actinopteri
- Labriformes
- Labridae
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Labrodon stromeri
Bohm 1926
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon cf. megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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| recombined as Otodus megalodon | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | South Africa |
| Coordinates: | 30.3° South, 17.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.4° South, 16.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Early or Middle Pliocene age (5Ma or 3.6Ma to 2.7 Ma), bearing in mind the international ratification of the new Quaternary boundary at 2.8 Ma (Gibbard et al., 2010) according with Avery and Klein (2011) citing Peher (2000) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | quartzose,brown,green,yellow sandstone |
| Environment: | shoreface |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 74791 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-08-29 11:31:34 | Last modified: | 2021-05-19 10:55:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-29 11:31:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37348. | J. Pether. 1986. Late Tertiary and early Quaternary marine deposits of the Namaqualand coast, Cape Province: new perspectives. South African Journal of Science 82:464-470 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 37211 | G. A. Avery and R. G. Klein. 2011. Review of fossil phocid and otariid seals from the southern and western coasts of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 66(1):14-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 67427 | J. Morales, M. Pickford, and A. Valenciano. 2016. Systematics of African Amphicyonidae, with descriptions of new material from Napak (Uganda) and Grillental (Namibia). Journal of Iberian Geology 42(2):131-150 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |