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 upper faunal level consists of sands and gravels 0.5m thick, 0.7-1.0m above the main (lower) faunal level.
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine
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 39866: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 10.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth | |
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Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868 deer
Cervus nestii Azzaroli 1947 deer | |
Megalovis latifrons antelope
Leptobos sp. Rutimeyer 1878 antelope | |
"Mitilanotherium inexspectatum" = Palaeotragus inexspectatus
"Mitilanotherium inexspectatum" = Palaeotragus inexspectatus Samson and Radulesco 1966 giraffe | |
Sus strozzii Forsyth Major 1881 pig | |
"Castor plicidens" = Castor fiber, Trogontherium boisvilletti
"Castor plicidens" = Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver |