Otovasca, middle and upper Sarmation (Miocene of Moldova)

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
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Tetralophodon longirostris Kaup 1832 gomphothere
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon turicensis Schintz 1824 mastodon
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Proochotona sp. Chomenko 1914 pika
 Rodentia - Castoridae
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Indarctos vireti Villalta and Crusafont 1943 bear
 Carnivora - Percrocutidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippotherium sarmaticum hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aceratherium sp. Kaup 1834 rhinoceros
Aceratherium incisivum Cuvier 1824 rhinoceros
Alicornops simorense rhinoceros
subspecies orientalis
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Procapreolus sp. Schlosser 1929 deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Miotragocerus pannoniae Kretzoi 1941 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Lagomerycidae
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
 Squamata - Varanidae
Varanus lungui Zerova and Chkhikvadze 1986 monitor lizard