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TABLE 1 in Fossil Bovidae from the Hominini-bearing site of Cooper's D (Bloubank Valley, South Africa): implications for Paranthropus robustus Broom, 1938 and early Homo Linnaeus, 1758 habitat preferences

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  • 1. Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) and UMR 7194 Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), MNHN / CNRS / UPVD, Alliance Sorbonne Université, Institut de Paléontologie humaine, 1 rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris (France)
  • 2. UMR 7194 Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), MNHN / CNRS / UPVD, Alliance Sorbonne Université, Institut de Paléontologie humaine, 1 rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris (France)
  • 3. UMR 7194 Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), MNHN / CNRS / UPVD, Alliance Sorbonne Université, 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris (France)
  • 4. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 (United States)
  • 5. Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) and DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg (South Africa)

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TABLE 1. — Bovid assemblages from Paranthropus robustus Broom, 1938 and early Homo Linnaeus, 1758 sites used in this study. Hominini are quantified in MNI (taken from de Ruiter et al. 2008). The Simpson’s index is calculated for each assemblage after bovid data in the Table 2.

DepositsSedimentary contextTaphonomical contextEstimated age (Ma)Homo sp.P. robustusSimpson’s index (D)References
SKLBDecalcifiedCarnivore/Hominini accumulation2.317-1.637190.4791(Brain 1981; de Ruiter 2003; Pickering et al. 2008, 2019)
KM2DecalcifiedCarnivore accumulation>2.21160.5357(Braga et al. 2017; Fourvel et al. 2018)
ST5OLDecalcifiedCarnivore2.18 ± 0.21020.5777(Brain 1981; Pickering 1999; Kuman & Clarke 2000; Granger et al. 2015)
KBCalcifiedCarnivore2.0-1.8060.2747(Bruxelles et al. 2017; Fourvel et al. 2018)
SKHRCalcifiedCarnivore/Hominini accumulation2.3-1.7951580.4596(Brain 1981; de Ruiter 2003; Pickering et al. 2008; Pickering et al. 2019)
DMQCalcified/ Decalcified–2.04-1.954440.2988(Adams et al. 2016; Herries et al. 2020)
Cooper’s DDecalcifiedCarnivore accumulation1.3-1.0020.2532This study
SKM2DecalcifiedCarnivore/Hominini accumulation1.36 ± 0.29280.3001(Brain 1981; de Ruiter 2003; Balter et al. 2008; Pickering et al. 2008)
SKM3DecalcifiedCarnivore/Hominini accumulation0.96 ± 0.09060.3835(Brain 1981; de Ruiter 2003; Pickering et al. 2008; Gibbon et al. 2014)

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Published as part of Hanon, Raphaël, Péan, Stéphane, Patou-Mathis, Marylène, Prat, Sandrine, Rector, Amy & Steininger, Christine, 2022, Fossil Bovidae from the Hominini-bearing site of Cooper's D (Bloubank Valley, South Africa): implications for Paranthropus robustus Broom, 1938 and early Homo Linnaeus, 1758 habitat preferences, pp. 434 in Comptes Rendus Palevol 21 (21) on page 434, DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2022v21a21, http://zenodo.org/record/20647119

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