Shaqadud S21: Holocene, Sudan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768
32 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Serpentes
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Aves
Reptilia - Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio camelus Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Reptilia - Numididae
Numida meleagris (Linnaeus 1758)
4 specimens
Reptilia - Varanidae
Varanus exanthematicus (Bosc 1792)
4 specimens
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Carnivora-small
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach 1797)
4 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Viverridae indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Viverridae-medium
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis silvestris Schreber 1777
5 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821
5 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Suidae
Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffa camelopardalis (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
45 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Antilopinae-small
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
6 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Antilopinae
Ourebia ourebi (Zimmerman 1783)
11 specimens
original and current combination Antilope ourebi
Hippotragus equinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803)
3 specimens
original and current combination Antilope equina
Damaliscus lunatus (Burchell 1823)
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix cristata Linnaeus 1758
4 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Thryonomyidae
Thryonomys gregorianus Thomas 1894
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Ampullariidae
Pila indet. Röding 1798
ETE occurrence; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
7 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - species name "large bivalves" split into genus and species names
see common names

Geography
Country:Sudan
Coordinates: 16.3° North, 33.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.2° North, 33.8° East
Geographic resolution:basin
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
Formation:Nubia
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 267417 +- 67 BP; date on ash radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: sediment, ash and sand
Environment:eolian indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: eolian, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: plain
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying
Collection size:2900 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 487, 485, 483, 478, 477, 454, 81, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 723, Shaqadud S21,
Database number:21904
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:1997-05-13 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-25 21:59:02
Access level:the public Released:1997-05-13 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5230.ETE 942A. E. Marks and A. Mohammed-Ali. 1991. The Late Prehistory of the Eastern Sahel. Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, TX [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]