Sea Harvest Site: Pleistocene, South Africa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus afer (Pallas 1766)
5 specimens
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
Procavia capensis (Pallas 1766)
836 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach 1797)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mellivora capensis (Schreber 1776)
20 specimens
Ictonyx striatus (Perry 1810)
2 specimens
Aonyx capensis (Schinz 1821)
10 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Lobodon carcinophagus (Hombron and Jacquinot 1843)
1 specimen
recombined as Lobodon carcinophaga
Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae
Arctocephalus pusillus (Schreber 1778)
172 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis mesomelas Schreber 1775
251 specimens
recombined as Lupulella mesomelas
Lycaon pictus (Temminck 1820)
21 specimens
Vulpes chama (Smith 1833)
39 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis serval Schreber 1776
48 specimens
recombined as Caracal serval
Felis libyca Forster 1780
44 specimens
Acinonyx jubatus (Schreber 1775)
1 specimen
Panthera leo (Linnaeus 1758)
20 specimens
Panthera pardus (Linnaeus 1758)
59 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Genetta tigrina (Schreber 1776)
4 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben 1777)
2 specimens
Hyaena brunnea Thunberg 1820
52 specimens
    = Parahyaena brunnea Thunberg 1820
Werdelin and Turner 1996
Mammalia - Carnivora - Herpestidae
Herpestes ichneumon (Linnaeus 1758)
17 specimens
Galerella pulverulenta (Wagner 1839)
22 specimens
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821
9 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Delphinidae
Mammalia - Suidae
Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)
3 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
132 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae-large
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
302 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae-small
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
398 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae-small/medium
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
966 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae-medium/large
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Pallas 1766)
6 specimens
Taurotragus oryx (Pallas 1766)
13 specimens
Sylvicapra grimmia (Linnaeus 1758)
6 specimens
Redunca arundinum (Boddaert 1785)
36 specimens
original and current combination Antilope arundinum
Oreotragus oreotragus (Zimmermann 1783)
4 specimens
Raphicerus campestris (Thunberg 1811)
2 specimens
original and current combination Antilope campestris
Raphicerus melanotis Thunberg 1811
10 specimens
Hippotragus leucophaeus (Pallas 1766)
21 specimens
Pelea capreolus (Forster 1790)
13 specimens
original and current combination Antilopa capreolus
Antidorcas marsupialis Zimmerman 1780
65 specimens
Damaliscus dorcas (Pallas 1766)
14 specimens
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766
Connochaetes gnou (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus capensis Broom 1909
57 specimens
Equus quagga Boddaert 1785
33 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
4 specimens
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus saxatilis
234 specimens
Lepus capensis Linnaeus 1758
17 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Bathyergus suillus (Schreber 1787)
1284 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852
5 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papio ursinus (Kerr 1792)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa
Coordinates: 33.0° South, 18.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.3° South, 17.8° East
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Quaternary - Quaternary *Epoch:Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene - Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: dates also based on stratigraphic and sedimentological obs.; C14 on ostrich eggshell radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0
Environment:cave
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: coastal, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: midden, ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate,anthropogenic
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying
Collection size:0 specimens
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 485, 483, 482, 481, 480, 478, 477, 454, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 748, Sea Harvest Site,
Database number:21929
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, A. Turner, R. Potts Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth, R. Potts, H. O'Regan
Modifier:M. Uhen
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:
5238.ETE 950F. E. Grine and R.G. Klein. 1993. Late Pleisticene Humans Remains from the Sea Harvest Site, Saldanha Bay, South Africa. Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Wetenskap 89:145-152 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

10899PACED L. Werdelin and A. Turner. 1996. The fossil and living Hyaenidae of Africa: present status. in K. M. Stewart and K.L. Semour (eds.) Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic mammals: Tributes to the career of C.S. (Rufus) Churcher. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 637-659 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]