Also known as HDP1
Where: South Africa (33.0° S, 18.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° S, 18.0° E)
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When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate, bone collector
Primary reference: D. D. Stynder, J. Moggi-Cecchi, L. R. Berger and J. E. Parkington. 2001. Human mandibular incisors from the late Middle Pleistocene locality of Hoedjiespunt 1, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 41:369-383 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 115188: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Patella sp. Linnaeus 1758 limpet | |
Mammalia | |
Connochaetes gnou Zimmermann 1780 black wildebeest
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766 hartebeest | |
"Lobodon carcinophagus" = Lobodon carcinophaga
"Lobodon carcinophagus" = Lobodon carcinophaga Hombron and Jacquinot 1843 crabeater seal | |
Arctocephalus pusillus Schreber 1778 brown fur seal | |
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas Schreber 1775 black-backed jackal | |
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 human | |
Reptilia | |
Chersina angulata Schweigger 1812 South African bowsprit tortoise | |
Aves | |
Spheniscus demersus Linnaeus 1758 African penguin | |
Phalacrocorax capensis Sparrman 1788 cape cormorant |