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 Author Hanon, Raphaël 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) raphael.hanon@edu.mnhn.fr Author Péan, Stéphane Author Patou-Mathis, Marylène 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) Author Prat, Sandrine UMR 7194 Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), MNHN / CNRS / UPVD, Alliance Sorbonne Université, 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris (France) Author Rector, Amy Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 (United States) Author Steininger, Christine 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) text Comptes Rendus Palevol 2022 2022-05-20 21 21 431 450 https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2022v21a21 journal article 315541 10.5852/cr-palevol2022v21a21 5fe1d084-9652-4eb5-b037-f24bf319c9c5 1777-571X 20647119 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:31905D6B-4B29-4ADD-869E-BA7C0037EFE2

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.

Deposits	Sedimentary context	Taphonomical context	Estimated age (Ma)	Homo sp.	P. robustus	Simpson’s index (D)	References
SKLB	Decalcified	Carnivore/Hominini accumulation	2.317-1.637	1	9	0.4791	(Brain 1981; de Ruiter 2003; Pickering et al. 2008, 2019)
KM2	Decalcified	Carnivore accumulation	>2.2	1	16	0.5357	(Braga et al. 2017; Fourvel et al. 2018)
ST5OL	Decalcified	Carnivore	2.18 ± 0.21	0	2	0.5777	(Brain 1981; Pickering 1999; Kuman & Clarke 2000; Granger et al. 2015)
KB	Calcified	Carnivore	2.0-1.8	0	6	0.2747	(Bruxelles et al. 2017; Fourvel et al. 2018)
SKHR	Calcified	Carnivore/Hominini accumulation	2.3-1.795	1	58	0.4596	(Brain 1981; de Ruiter 2003; Pickering et al. 2008; Pickering et al. 2019)
DMQ	Calcified/ Decalcified	–	2.04-1.95	4	44	0.2988	(Adams et al. 2016; Herries et al. 2020)
Cooper’s D	Decalcified	Carnivore accumulation	1.3-1.0	0	2	0.2532	This study
SKM2	Decalcified	Carnivore/Hominini accumulation	1.36 ± 0.29	2	8	0.3001	(Brain 1981; de Ruiter 2003; Balter et al. 2008; Pickering et al. 2008)
SKM3	Decalcified	Carnivore/Hominini accumulation	0.96 ± 0.09	0	6	0.3835	(Brain 1981; de Ruiter 2003; Pickering et al. 2008; Gibbon et al. 2014)