Also known as Taut, Migieşului Valley, Migiesului
Where: Arad, Romania (46.3° N, 21.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 21.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)
• "[...] Volhynian substage of the Sarmatian, which may correspond to the lower part of the Sarmatian (late middle Miocene) (Grigorescu & Kazár 2006). Based on micromammals, Feru et al. (1980) assigned the Tauţ locality to the MN 8 of the European Neogene Mammal zones system (Mein 1975)."
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; unlithified, tuffaceous, green claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by M. Feru, C. Rădulescu, P. Samson in 1979
• "During a survey on the microvertebrate fossils from the collections of the Speleological Institute 'Emil Racoviţă' (ISER), Bucharest, we found a huge amount of herpetological material from Tauţ, collected by M. Feru, C. Rădulescu and P. Samson in 1979. The material has never been mentioned in any papers of the above authors."
Primary reference: M. Venczel and E. Stiuca. 2008. Late middle Miocene amphibians and squamate reptiles from Taut, Romania. Geodiversitas 30(4):731-763 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135812: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 09.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Palaeobatrachus cf. hiri frog 3 skull bones (ISER Tt-0380, 0381, 0384), 1 urostyle (Tt-0385), 1 clavicle (Tt-0382), 1 tibiofibula (Tt-0386)
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Bufo cf. viridis Laurenti 1768 European green toad 4 skull bones (ISER Tt-0400-0403), 4 prearticulars (Tt-0404/1-4), 3 vertebrae (Tt-0405, 0406/1+2), 4 urostyles (Tt-407/1-4), 6 longbones (Tt-0408/1-3, 0409/1-3)
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Pelophylax sp. Fitzinger 1843 frog 2 premaxillae (ISER Tt-0420/1+2), 2 vertebrae (Tt-0421/1+2), 10 longbones (Tt-0422/1-3, 0423/1-7)
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Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad 4 skull bones (ISER Tt-0390/1-3, 0391), 1 vertebra (Tt-0392), 1 scapula (Tt-0393), 1 ilium (Tt-0394)
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Latonia gigantea Lartet 1851 frog 15 skull bones (ISER Tt-0370/1+2, 0371/1-8, 372/1-5), 1 vertebra (Tt-0373), 1 coracoid (Tt-0374), 3 longbones (Tt-0375, 0376/1-2)
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Carpathotriton sp. Venczel 2008 newt 2 skull bones (ISER Tt-0330, 0331), 8 mandibular bones (Tt-0333/1-6, 0332/1+2), 41 vertebrae (Tt-0334/1-6, 0335/1-35), 8 longbones (Tt-0336/1-4, 0337, 0338/1-3)
Triturus cf. marmoratus Latreille 1800 marbled newt 2 skull bones (ISER Tt-0360, 0361), 8 vertebrae (Tt-0362/1-8), 2 longbones (Tt-0363, 0334)
Chelotriton paradoxus Pomel 1853 newt 7 skull bones (ISER Tt- 0300, 0301/1-4, 0302, 0303), 2 dentaries (Tt-0304/1+2), 5 vertebrae (Tt-0306/1-5), 10 longbones (Tt-0307/1-4, 0308, 0309/1-5), 7 ribs (Tt-0310/1-7)
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Reptilia | |
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"Macrovipera sp." = Vipera (Macrovipera)
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Hierophis cf. hungaricus colubrid snake 1 fragmentary compound bone of mandible (ISER Tt-0500), 35 vertebrae (Tt-0501/1-35)
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Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 squamates 6 dentaries (ISER Tt-0450/1-6) of "relatively small individuals"
Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates 10 skull bones (ISER Tt-0440, 0441/1+2, 0442/1-7), 4 dentaries (Tr-0443/1-4)
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Gekkonidae indet. Gray 1825 gecko 2 dentaries (ISER Tt-0430/1-2); spelled "Geckonidae indet." in the reference
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Blanus cf. gracilis Roček 1984 worm lizard 1 premaxilla (ISER Tt-0470), 4 fragmentary dentaries (Tt-0471/1-4), 60 vertebrae (Tt-0472/1-60)
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Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard 10 vertebrae (ISER Tt-0460/1-10), 14 osteoderms (Tt-0461/1-14)
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