Fintina lui Mitilan (lower faunal level), Tetoiu 2 middle faunal horizon (Pleistocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (44.7° N, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 23.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Early Pleistocene. Faunal comparison indicates that the Middle Faunal Horizon (Tetoiu 2) correlates with the ?Tasso faunal unit, Seneze zone, Eburonian cold stage and Domashkinianhorizon/Odessan faunal complex. The middle faunal horizon corresponds to a general cooling and drying of the climate. The deposits consist of a basal succession of clays and sands, 8m thick, which underlies a sequence 6m thick, consisting predominantly of sands with gravel lenses. The main fossiliferous bed (lower faunal level), 1.4-1.5m thick is located 1m above the basal succession. It is represented at the base by alternating coarse sands and gravel lenses and portions of cemented silty sediment.

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine

• The Middle faunal horizon is at the top of a 40m sequence of sands with gravel and pebble lenses and thin clay intercalations. 'The beds have an average dip of 1 to 2 degrees SE.'
• Alternating coarse sands and gravel lenses and portions of cemented silty sediment.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Radulesco and P. Samson. 1990. The Plio-Pleistocene mammalian succession of the Oltet Valley, Dacic Basin, Romania. Quatarpalaontologie 8:225-232 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39865: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 10.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Allocaenelephas sp.
Allocaenelephas sp.
primitive form.
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus meridionalis
Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth
typical form. 1 almost complete skeleton, 1 partial skeleton, 3 mandibles with deciduous dentition, isolated limb bones (both adult and juvenile) and isolated teeth.
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Eucladoceros sp.
Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868 deer
 Rodentia - Castoridae
"Castor plicidens" = Castor fiber
"Castor plicidens" = Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver