Power's Site: Calabrian, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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52 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | ||||||||||
Equus capensis
Broom 1909
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23 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Metridiochoerus meadowsi
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Phacochoerus aethiopicus
(Pallas 1766)
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13 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus amphibius
Linnaeus 1758
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27 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Antidorcas marsupialis
Zimmerman 1780
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Alcelaphini indet.
Brookes 1876
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31 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini | ||||||||||
Redunca arundinum
(Boddaert 1785)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
original and current combination Antilope arundinum | ||||||||||
Taurotragus oryx
(Pallas 1766)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Syncerus caffer
(Sparman 1779)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
original and current combination Bos caffer | ||||||||||
Pelorovis antiquus
(Duvernoy 1851)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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9 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Megalotragus priscus
(Broom 1909)
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12 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Bubalis priscus | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | South Africa |
Coordinates: | 28.5° South, 24.5° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 28.6° South, 24.4° East |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Quaternary - Quaternary | *Epoch: | Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene (minimum) |
*International age/stage: | Calabrian | ||
Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
Age range of interval: | 1.80600 - 0.78100 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Rietputs | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: dates based on fauna and artifacts radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Vaal gravels; coarse sand with abundant cobbels | |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
Collection size: | 36 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 488, 487, 485, 482, 479, 478, 477, 456, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list: |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 747, Power's Site, | ||
Database number: | 21928 | ||
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:
5214. | ETE 926 | R. G. Klein. 1979. Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 34:34-49 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |