Also known as ETE Locality 696, Bir Tarfawi 14,
Where: Egypt (22.9° N, 28.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 28.9° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: culture=aterian; 21950 +- 490 on organic residue; 44190 +- 1380 on Melanoides radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 488, 483, 482, 479, 478, 477, 456, 121, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: F. Wendorf and R. Schild. 1980. Prehistory of the Eastern Sahara 1-414 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 21877: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.05.1997, edited by John Damuth, Richard Potts and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Hydrobia indet. Hartmann 1821 snail ETE occurrence; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
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Mammalia | |
Equus asinus Linnaeus 1758 donkey | |
Camelus thomasi Pomel 1893 camel | |
Bovidae "indet. 1", Bovidae "indet. 2", "Gazella dama" = Nanger dama, "Gazella rufifrons" = Eudorcas rufifrons
Bovidae "indet. 2" Gray 1821 antelope ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Antilopinae-medium
"Gazella dama" = Nanger dama Pallas 1766 dama gazelle
"Gazella rufifrons" = Eudorcas rufifrons Gray 1846 red-fronted gazelle | |
Canis aureus Linnaeus 1758 golden jackal
Vulpes ruppellii fox | |
Reptilia | |
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Aves | |
Caprimulgus sp. Linnaeus 1758 nightjar | |
Corvus albus Muller 1776 pied crow | |
Rallidae indet. Vigors 1825 rail | |
Pterocles sp. Temminck 1815 sandgrouse
Pterocles cf. senegallus Linnaeus 1771 spotted sandgrouse | |
cf. Neotis denhami Children and Vigors 1826 Denham's bustard |