Where: Romania (43.8° N, 24.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 24.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Ruscinian (5.3 - 3.2 Ma)
• Middle Pliocene, Upper Ruscinian = Csarnotien, MN15. There are two levels at the site with different colours, consistency, petrographic content and fauna. Ciuperceni 2 is the upper level. 'Cette suite de couches, fossilifere dans toute son epaisseur, a ete denommee Ciuperceni 2'. p. 115.
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: E. Terzea. 1981. Remarques sur la biostratigraphie du Pliocene du sud de la Plaine Roumanie (Zone de Turni-Magurele). Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie 'Emile Racovitza' 20:113-126 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40796: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 01.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758 tetrapod | |
Mammalia | |
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Trogontherium cf. minus beaver | |
Pliospalax macoveii Simionescu 1930 blind mole | |
Prospalax priscus mouse
Mimomys occitanus Thaler 1955 vole Preliminarily listed as Mimomys stehlini on one M1, further investigation revealed 26 specimens showing it to be M. occitanus.
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Pliopentalagus sp. Gureev and Konkova 1964 rabbit
Trischizolagus dumitrescuae Radulesco and Samson 1967 rabbit | |
Ochotona cf. ursui pika | |
Dolichopithecus sp. Depéret 1889 monkey | |
Talpa cf. csarnotana mole
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole | |
Artiodactyla indet. even-toed ungulate | |
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Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
? Procapreolus sp. Schlosser 1929 deer | |
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore two types. Type 1 = Meles sized. Type II = Pannonictis sized.
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Ursidae indet. Gray 1825 bear | |
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Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 squamates | |
Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
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