Cherlestii - Mosteni, Layer 3: Late/Upper Pliocene, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Borsodia sp.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Talpidae
Desmana nehringi Kormos 1913
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1809
small-sized
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys ex gr. polonicus
Mimomys minor
Dolomys milleri
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dipodidae
Allactaga ucrainica
Pisces
Pisces indet. Linnaeus 1758
synonym of Osteichthyes
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania State/province:Wallachia Region County:Olt county
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 24.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.6° North, 24.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:133 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Regional bed:Layer 3
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ferruginous,gray claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Gray clays with dark gray spots, some concentrations of iron oxydes
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:36004
Authorizer:E. Fara Enterer:E. Fara
Modifier:E. Fara Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-01-13 08:07:21 Last modified:2004-01-14 01:34:26
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-13 08:07:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9672.5% 6420M. 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]