Also known as ETE Locality 714, Thandwe Rock Shelter,
Where: Zambia (13.8° S, 32.5° E: paleocoordinates 13.8° S, 32.5° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 63330 AD +- 115; 890 AD +- 110; 1060 AD +- 110; dates on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: cave; sandstone
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: D. W. Phillipson. 1976. The Prehistory of Eastern Zambia. Memoir of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 6 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 21895: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.05.1997, edited by John Damuth
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758 porcupine | |
Mus sp. Linnaeus 1758 house mouse | |
Papio sp., "Cercopithecus aethiops" = Chlorocebus aethiops
Papio sp. Erxleben 1777 baboon
"Cercopithecus aethiops" = Chlorocebus aethiops Linnaeus 1758 vervet monkey | |
Crocuta crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena | |
Herpestes sanguineus Rüppell 1835 slender mongoose | |
Phacochoerus sp. Cuvier 1826 warthog | |
Bovidae indet., Taurotragus oryx, Tragelaphus scriptus, Syncerus caffer, Ourebia ourebi, Raphicerus sharpei, Kobus ellipsiprymnus, Redunca sp., Connochaetes sp., Cephalophus sp., Sylvicapra sp.
Taurotragus oryx Pallas 1766 common eland
Tragelaphus scriptus Pallas 1766 bushbuck
Syncerus caffer Sparman 1779 African buffalo
Ourebia ourebi Zimmerman 1783 oribi
Raphicerus sharpei Thomas 1897 Sharpe's grysbok
Kobus ellipsiprymnus Ogilby 1833 waterbuck
Redunca sp. Smith 1827 reedbuck
Connochaetes sp. Lichtenstein 1812 wildebeest
Cephalophus sp. Smith 1827 duiker
Sylvicapra sp. Ogilby 1837 duiker | |
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra | |
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791 aardvark | |
Dendrohyrax sp. Gray 1868 tree hyrax | |
Reptilia | |
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Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard |