Where: Gauteng, South Africa (26.0° S, 27.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 27.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• "Renewed excavations in 2001 into in situ, decalcified sediments at Coopers D have produced a rich and varied faunal assemblage, including abundant carnivore material, dated on biostratigraphic grounds to between 1.6 and 1.9 million years ago (Mya) (Berger et al. 2003)." (Hartstone-Rose et al. 2009)

•Hartstone-Rose et al. (2010) describe the site as "Late Pliocene (ca. 1.9Ma)", but this age makes the site Early Pleistocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, conglomeratic breccia

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Hartstone-Rose, D.J. De Ruiter, L.R. Berger and S.E. Churchill. 2007. A sabre-tooth felid from Coopers Cave (Gauteng, South Africa) and its implications for Megantereon (Felidae: Machairodontinae) taxonomy. [M. Uhen/S. Paxson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190075: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Stephanie Paxson on 27.11.2017, edited by Bethany Allen

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