Gobero Early Holocene Refuse: Holocene, Niger
collected 2006, 2007
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Tilapinii indet.
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Thryonomyidae
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Thryonomys swinderianus
(Temminck 1827)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis sylvestris
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Herpestidae
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Herpestidae indet.
(Bonaparte 1845)
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus amphibius
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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Kobus kob
(Erxleben 1777)
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Redunca redunca
Hamilton Smith 1827
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Pelomedusidae
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Pelusios adansonii
Schweigger 1812
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Reptilia
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Neognathae indet.
Pycraft 1900
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Crocodylus niloticus
Laurenti 1768
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Cladistia
- Polypteriformes
- Polypteridae
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Polypterus sp.
Lacépède 1803
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Actinopteri
- Osteoglossiformes
- Osteoglossidae
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Heterotis niloticus
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Actinopteri
- Osteoglossiformes
- Mormyridae
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Mormyridae indet.
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Actinopteri
- Cypriniformes
- Cyprinidae
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Cyprinidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Clariidae
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Clarias sp.
Scopoli 1777
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Bagridae
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Auchenoglanis sp.
Günther 1865
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Actinopteri
- Centropomidae
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Lates niloticus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Iridinidae
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? Aspatharia sp.
Bourguignat 1885
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Mutelidae
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Mutela sp.
Scopoli 1777
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Niger |
Coordinates: | 17.0° North, 9.8° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 17.0° North, 9.8° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago | ||
Age estimate: | 7700 to 6200 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: age is "Phase 2-Early Holocene Occupation (7700-6200 B.C.E.)" based on numerous 14C AMS dates on enamel and bone |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified calcareous sandstone |
Lithology description: calcrete is composed of "calcite-cemented aeolian sand" (lithified based on this statement and figures of specimens) | |
Environment: | dune |
Geology comments: "low, calcrete fringed paleodunes" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | many |
Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis | Collection dates: | 2006, 2007 |
Collection method comments: museum repository is not discussed, but only some skeletons were "removed in plaster jackets" and prepared
site discovered in 2000 and visited in 2003 but not worked until 2006 and 2007 |
Metadata
Database number: | 83305 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-08-15 16:57:04 | Last modified: | 2010-01-28 17:27:57 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-08-15 16:57:04 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
27974. | P. C. Sereno, E. A. A. Garcea, H. Jousse, C. M. Stojanowski, J.-F. Saliège, A. Maga, O. A. Ide, K. J. Knudson, A. M. Mercuri, T. W. Stafford, Jr., T. G. Kaye, C. Giraudi, I. Massamba N'siala, E. Cocca, H. M. Moots, D. B. Dutheil, and J. P. Stivers. 2008. Lakeside cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 years of Holocene population and environmental change. PLoS ONE 3(8):e2995 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |