Blombos Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Bathyergus suillus (Schreber 1787)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus saxatilis
Lepus capensis Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papio urinus
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceus frontalis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus capensis Broom 1909
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
Ovis aries Linnaeus 1758
Raphicerus sp. Smith 1827
Raphicerus campestris (Thunberg 1811)
original and current combination Antilope campestris
Raphicerus melanotis Thunberg 1811
Oreotragus oreotragus (Zimmermann 1783)
Antidorcas sp. Sundevall 1847
Hippotragus leucophaeus (Pallas 1766)
Connochaetes gnou (Zimmermann 1780)
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766
Pelea capreolus (Forster 1790)
original and current combination Antilopa capreolus
Sylvicapra grimmia (Linnaeus 1758)
Redunca arundinum (Boddaert 1785)
original and current combination Antilope arundinum
Taurotragus oryx (Pallas 1766)
Syncerus caffer (Sparman 1779)
original and current combination Bos caffer
? Bos taurus Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis libyca Forster 1780
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaenidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Herpestidae
Herpestes pulverulentus Wagner 1839
recombined as Galerella pulverulenta
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Genetta sp. Cuvier 1816
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Ictonyx striatus (Perry 1810)
Aonyx capensis (Schinz 1821)
Mellivora capensis (Schreber 1776)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae
Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber 1778)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Canis mesomelas Schreber 1775
recombined as Lupulella mesomelas
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia capensis (Pallas 1766)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach 1797)
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa
Coordinates: 34.4° South, 21.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.4° South, 21.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: 100 ka - 70 ka
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:cave
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,anthropogenic
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Metadata
Database number:115167
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-08-30 05:24:52 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-30 05:24:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37301. C. S. Henshilwood, J. C. Sealy, R. Yates, K. Cruz-Uribe, P. Goldberg, F. E. Grine, R. G. Klein, C. Poggenpoel, K. Niekerk and I. Watts. 2001. Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels. Journal of Archaeological Science 28:421-448 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

37211 G. A. Avery and R. G. Klein. 2011. Review of fossil phocid and otariid seals from the southern and western coasts of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 66(1):14-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]