Cetopirus complanatus (Cirripedia: Coronulidae) from the late Middle Pleistocene human settlement of Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, South Africa)

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Authors: COLLARETA, ALBERTO, MAREAN, CURTIS W., JERARDINO, ANTONIETA, BOSSELAERS, MARK
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2017
• Subjects: Crustacea; Whale barnacle; Eubalaena; MIS 6; Middle Stone Age; palaeoecology; palaeobiogeography; scavenging; migration; Pinnacle; baleen whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; Southern Right Whale
• Online Access: http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4237.2.12; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.12

The late Middle Pleistocene cave site of Pinnacle Point 13B (PP13B, South Africa) has provided the archaeologically oldest evidences yet known of human consumption of marine resources. Among the marine invertebrates recognised at PP13B, an isolated whale barnacle compartment was tentatively determin...