Makapansgat-Mbrs 3/4/5: Pliocene, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Diptera - Calliphoridae
Calliphoridae indet. (Brauer and von Bergenstamm 1889)
ETE occurrence; species: Brachycera
Mammalia - Bovidae
Hippotragus cookei Vrba 1987
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Metaschizotherium transvaalensis
86 specimens
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:5.33300 - 2.58000 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 1284G. L. Webb. 1965. Notes on some chalicothere remains from Makapansgat. Palaeontologia Africana 9:49-68 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]