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