Cherlestii - Mosteni, Layer 3 (Pliocene of Romania)

Where: Wallachia Region, Romania (44.5° N, 24.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 24.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; ferruginous, gray claystone

• Gray clays with dark gray spots, some concentrations of iron oxydes

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36004: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 13.01.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Desmana nehringi Kormos 1913 Russian desman
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1809 beaver
small-sized
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Pisces
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"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish