Where: Chișinău, Moldova (47.2° N, 28.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 27.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 9 mammal zone, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• Neogene, Middle Sarmatian, Bessarabian, MN 9 Biozone
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Obada. 2019. Associatia de vertebrate din punctul fosilifer Sarmatian mediu Otovasca (Mun. Chisinau) si importanta oor biostratigraphfica. Buletin Ştiinţific. Revistă de Etnografie, Ştiinţele Naturii şi Muzeologie 30(43):112-120 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 210536: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Tetralophodon longirostris Kaup 1832 gomphothere | |
Zygolophodon turicensis Schintz 1824 mastodon | |
Ochotona kalfense pika
Proochotona sp. Chomenko 1914 pika | |
Chalicomys jaegeri beaver | |
Indarctos vireti Villalta and Crusafont 1943 bear | |
Percrocuta robusta carnivoran | |
Hippotherium sarmaticum hipparionine horse | |
Aceratherium sp. Kaup 1834 rhinoceros
Aceratherium incisivum Cuvier 1824 rhinoceros | |
Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig | |
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe | |
Procapreolus sp. Schlosser 1929 deer | |
Miotragocerus pannoniae Kretzoi 1941 antelope | |
Lagomeryx flerovi ruminant | |
Reptilia | |
Protestudo chisinauensis turtle | |
Varanus lungui Zerova and Chkhikvadze 1986 monitor lizard |