Izvoru, Layer 1: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Romania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Euctenoceros sp.
Trouessart 1898
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antler remains | ||||||||||
= Allocaenelephas sp.
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Radulesco and Samson 1986 | |||||||||
1 frontal fragment with antler base. | ||||||||||
= Eucladoceros sp.
Falconer 1868
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McKenna and Bell 1997 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Archidiskodon meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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Radulesco and Samson 1986 | |||||||||
1 axis. | ||||||||||
= Mammuthus meridionalis
Nesti 1825
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McKenna and Bell 1997 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Romania | State/province: | Wallachia Region | County: | Olt county |
Coordinates: | 44.4° North, 24.2° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 44.5° North, 24.0° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 162 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Regional bed: | Layer 1 | ||||
Regional order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Pleistocene.
'possibly correlated with the upper part of the Domashkinian of the Odessa faunistic complex, Early Eburonian, zone of Seneze (type locality).' 'Correlated within the Dacic basin with Tetoiu-2/Irimesti (phase 11 of the Lower Pleistocene of Romania.' (R&S, 1986). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "cross stratification" unlithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: large-grained sands, cross-stratified | |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Ganeasa, Izvoru-1 (macrofaunal level). | ||
Database number: | 36007 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Fara, A. Turner | Enterer: | E. Fara, H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-01-13 08:24:44 | Last modified: | 2004-06-01 07:04:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-13 08:24:44 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9672. | 5% 6420 | M. Feru, C. Radulesco, and P. Samson. 1978. Biostratigraphie (micromammiferes) des depots plio-pleistocenes de la zone de Slatina (dep. d'Olt). Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie "Emile Racovitza", Bucharest 17:117-134 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
9687 | 5% 41160 | M. Hugueney and P. Mein. 1966. Les rongeurs pliocenes du Roussillon dans les collections lyonnaises. Travaux du Laboratoire de Geologie de la Faculte de Sciences de Lyon 13(N.S.):243-266 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy] |
7584 | M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level 1-640 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
10660 | PACED | C. Radulesco and P. Samson. 1986. Les Mammiferes du Pleistocene inferieur d'Izvoru (Departement d'Olt, Roumanie). Quatarpalaontologie 6:157-171 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |