Thandwe Rock Shelter: Holocene, Zambia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 individual | |||||||||
| ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Lagomorpha | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tubulidentata
- Orycteropodidae
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Orycteropus sp.
Geoffroy 1791
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Procaviidae
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Dendrohyrax sp.
Gray 1868
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta crocuta
(Erxleben 1777)
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Herpestidae
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Herpestes sanguineus
Rüppell 1835
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Phacochoerus sp.
Cuvier 1826
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4 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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11 individuals | |||||||||
| ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Bovidae | ||||||||||
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Syncerus caffer
(Sparman 1779)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| original and current combination Bos caffer | ||||||||||
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Tragelaphus scriptus
(Pallas 1766)
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Taurotragus oryx
(Pallas 1766)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Sylvicapra sp.
Ogilby 1837
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Cephalophus sp.
Smith 1827
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Kobus ellipsiprymnus
(Ogilby 1833)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| original and current combination Antilope ellipsiprymnus | ||||||||||
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Redunca sp.
Smith 1827
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Ourebia ourebi
(Zimmerman 1783)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| original and current combination Antilope ourebi | ||||||||||
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Raphicerus sharpei
Thomas 1897
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Connochaetes sp.
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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4 individuals | |||||||||
| recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Muridae indet.
Illiger 1811
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6 individuals | |||||||||
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Mus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Papio sp.
Erxleben 1777
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Cercopithecus aethiops
(Linnaeus 1758)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| recombined as Chlorocebus aethiops | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Varanus sp.
Merrem 1820
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4 individuals | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Zambia |
| Coordinates: | 13.8° South, 32.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.8° South, 32.5° East |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Epoch: | holocene |
| *International age/stage: | Holocene (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 63330 AD +- 115; 890 AD +- 110; 1060 AD +- 110; dates on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: shelter formed by weathering sandstone | |
| Environment: | cave |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: karst, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: rock shelter | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying |
| Collection size: | 0 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 714, Thandwe Rock Shelter, | ||
| Database number: | 21895 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1997-05-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-05-19 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5210. | ETE 922 | D. W. Phillipson. 1976. The Prehistory of Eastern Zambia. Memoir of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 6 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |