Makapansgat-Mbrs 3/4/5: Pliocene, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Chalicotheriidae
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Metaschizotherium transvaalensis
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86 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Hippotragus cookei
Vrba 1987
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Insecta
- Diptera
- Calliphoridae
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Calliphoridae indet.
(Brauer and von Bergenstamm 1889)
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ETE occurrence; species: Brachycera | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | South Africa |
Coordinates: | 24.2° South, 29.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 24.4° South, 28.6° East |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary - Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene - Pliocene |
Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Makapansgat | Member: | "3, 4, & 5" | ||
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: "Fauna /paleomag data sugg age =~3.0 Ma,range=3.32 to 2.6 Ma" |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "Mbr 3,4,5:loam" | |
Environment: | cave |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: trap, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection size: | 88 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 930, 926, ; ETE museum list: |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 1176, "Makapansgat - Mbrs 3, 4, & 5", | ||
Database number: | 22352 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
Created: | 1999-08-23 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-23 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
5546. | ETE 1284 | G. L. Webb. 1965. Notes on some chalicothere remains from Makapansgat. Palaeontologia Africana 9:49-68 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham] |