Drimolen Main Quarry: Early/Lower Pleistocene, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Tragelaphus sp.
11 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
36 specimens
Pronolagus sp. Lyon 1904
1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecidae indet. Gray 1821
272 specimens
Cercopithecoides williamsi Mollet 1947
22 specimens
Papio hamadryas (Linnaeus 1758)
260 specimens
subspecies robinsoni
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Paranthropus robustus (Broom 1938)
Homo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus quagga Boddaert 1785
3 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
538 specimens
Raphicerus sp. Smith 1827
1 specimen
Oreotragus sp. Smith 1834
12 specimens
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876
45 specimens
Class II/III n=34; Class III n=11
Damaliscus sp. Sclater and Thomas 1894
2 specimens
Megalotragus sp. van Hoepen 1932
4 specimens
Connochaetes sp. (Lichtenstein 1812)
2 specimens
Redunca cf. fulvorufula (Afzelius 1815)
3 specimens
Tragelaphini indet. Blyth 1863
2 specimens
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
15 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
31 specimens
Machairodontinae indet. Gill 1872
1 specimen
Megantereon whitei Broom 1937
2 specimens
? Dinofelis sp. Zdansky 1924
1 specimen
Dinofelis aff. piveteaui Ewer 1955
17 specimens
Dinofelis cf. barlowi Broom 1937
1 specimen
Panthera sp. Oken 1816
1 specimen
Panthera pardus (Linnaeus 1758)
5 specimens
cf. Panthera pardus (Linnaeus 1758)
3 specimens
Felis silvestris Schreber 1777
3 specimens
subspecies lybica
cf. Caracal caracal (Schreber 1776)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaenidae indet. Gray 1821
7 specimens
Lycyaenops silberbergi Broom 1946
1 specimen
Chasmaporthetes nitidula Ewer 1955
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Herpestidae
aff. Suricata suricatta (Schreber 1776)
1 specimen
cf. Cynictis pencillata
3 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
5 specimens
Vulpes chama (Smith 1833)
1 specimen
cf. Vulpes chama (Smith 1833)
5 specimens
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia sp. Storr 1780
5 specimens
Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus cf. afer (Pallas 1766)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephantidae indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Psammobates antiquorum n. sp. Broadley 1997
Broadley 1997
unclassified
Antidorcas recki (Schwartz 1932)
25 specimens
original and current combination Adenota recki
Antidorcas cf. recki (Schwartz 1932)
26 specimens
original and current combination Adenota recki
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Gauteng
Coordinates: 26.0° South, 27.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.1° South, 27.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: breccia
Lithology description: thick clast-supported, fossil-bearing breccia
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: single cavern with basal speleothem overlain by fossil-bearing breccia
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: ad-hoc sediment collection followed by 1x1m or smaller grid collection with multiple methods of seiving; use of total station since 2003 and more recently, laser scanning.
Metadata
Database number:183152
Authorizer:P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos Enterer:P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-12-05 16:02:34 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2016-12-05 16:02:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61133. J. W. Adams, D. S. Rovinsky, A. I. R. Herries and C. G. Menter. 2016. Macromammalian faunas, biochronology and palaeoecology of the early Pleistocene Main Quarry hominin-bearing deposits of the Drimolen Palaeocave System, South Africa. PeerJ 4(e1941):1-45 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

66490 D. G. Broadley. 1997. A new species of Psammobates (Reptilia: Testudinidae) from the Early Pleistocene of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 34:111-114 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]