Pleistocene rhinoceros tracks from the Cape coast of South Africa

Abstract

Ichnological sites have the potential to corroborate and complement the traditional body fossil record. Seven Pleistocene tracksites, attributed with varying degrees of confidence to rhinoceros trackmakers, have been identified on aeolianite surfaces on South Africa’s Cape south coast. Thus far only one track has been assigned to a trackmaker species. In combination, these sites appear to provide the only reported fossil rhinoceros tracks from the middle and late Pleistocene. They thus form an important part of the global record.