Also known as ETE Locality 1050, Langebaanweg, "E Quarry, QSM & PPM",
Where: South Africa (33.0° S, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° S, 17.7° E)
When: QSM & PPM Member (Varswater Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Dating by correl w/radiom dated sites; ETE date Miocene to Pliocene; date after Hendey (1981)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; phosphatic sandstone
•JA: originally uploaded as being "coastal" but clearly "wet floodplain" instead
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 632, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: P. J. Haarhoff. 1988. A new fossil stork from the later Tertiary of Langebaanweg,South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 97(11):297-313 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22227: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 04.06.1999, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
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Gazella sp., "Simatherium demissum" = Ugandax demissum, Kobus subdolus, Raphicerus sp., Raphicerus paralius, cf. Damalacra sp., Damalacra acalla
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle
"Simatherium demissum" = Ugandax demissum Gentry 1980 antelope
Kobus subdolus Gentry 1980 antelope
Raphicerus sp. Smith 1827 antelope
Raphicerus paralius Gentry 1980 antelope
cf. Damalacra sp. Gentry 1980 antelope
Damalacra acalla Gentry 1980 antelope | |
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| Aves | |
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Scopus xenopus bird | |
Ciconia kahli n. sp.
Ciconia kahli n. sp. Haarhoff 1988 stork | |
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Colius hendeyi mousebird | |