Where: South Africa (30.3° S, 17.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° S, 16.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Early or Middle Pliocene age (5Ma or 3.6Ma to 2.7 Ma), bearing in mind the international ratification of the new Quaternary boundary at 2.8 Ma (Gibbard et al., 2010) according with Avery and Klein (2011) citing Peher (2000)
Environment/lithology: shoreface; quartzose, brown, green, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Pether. 1986. Late Tertiary and early Quaternary marine deposits of the Namaqualand coast, Cape Province: new perspectives. South African Journal of Science 82:464-470 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74791: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.08.2007, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Osteichthyes | |
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Actinopteri | |
Labrodon stromeri Bohm 1926 | |
Aves | |
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Mammalia | |
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Ceratotherium praecox white rhino | |
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharodon cf. megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon cf. megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon |