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Dinaledi Chamber owl, Gauteng, South Africa
Lat/Long (Decimal) | -26.02,27.71 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Gauteng, South Africa |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Dinaledi Chamber owl, Rising Star cave | Kruger A., Badenhorst S. (2018) | "Based upon the physical state of the bones themselves as well as the clear lack of fossilisation as is typical on the hominin bones also found on the surface of the cave, we hypothesise that these remains are modern, or much closer to the present time, and not directly associated temporally with the H. naledi remains, likely being considerably younger. The appearance of preservation of these bones is clearly different from the hominin material found in the chamber." Deposits containing hominin | "siliciclastic" | 0.126 - 0 Ma Quaternary |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Tyto alba species | Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Strigiformes : Tytonidae : Tyto : Tyto alba | 0.126 - 0 Ma Quaternary |
References
Kruger A., Badenhorst S. (2018) Remains of a barn owl (Tyto alba) from the Dinaledi Chamber, Rising Star Cave, South Africa, South African Journal of Science 114, 5152 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!