Power's Site: Calabrian, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus burchelli Gray 1824
52 specimens
recombined as Equus quagga burchelli
Equus capensis Broom 1909
23 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
Metridiochoerus meadowsi
1 specimen
Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)
13 specimens
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
27 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Antidorcas marsupialis Zimmerman 1780
1 specimen
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876
31 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini
Redunca arundinum (Boddaert 1785)
1 specimen
original and current combination Antilope arundinum
Taurotragus oryx (Pallas 1766)
1 specimen
Syncerus caffer (Sparman 1779)
1 specimen
original and current combination Bos caffer
Pelorovis antiquus (Duvernoy 1851)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
9 specimens
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
unclassified
Megalotragus priscus (Broom 1909)
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 926R. 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]