Cherlestii - Mosteni, Layer 4 (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)

• The layer is only 0.5 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 36005: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 13.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

Pisces
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"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1809 beaver
unclassified
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Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758