Also known as Betfia VII/1a, Somleu Hill

Where: Romania (47.0° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 22.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Site overview: The site of Betfia 7 has a height of 8m and encompasses four complexes of layers. The first three of these represent the filling of a former cave, containing numerous fragments of speleotherms and the last is made up of loess-like deposits, accumulated in subaerial conditions. Level 1a is the basal complex in the cave fillings, and contains cracked stones. This level contains Lemmus and has been referred to a cooling phase, probably contemporaneous with the middle Waalian. (= Middle Lower Pleistocene, approx. 1.3Ma).

Environment/lithology: cave

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• sites discovered between 1966 and 1991 and excavated by the Bucharest Speleological Institute and the "Tarii Crisurilor" Museum of Oradea.

Primary reference: E. Terzea. 1996. Biochronology of the Pleistocene deposits at Betfia (Bihor, Romania). Acta Zoologica Cracovensia 39(1):531-540 [A. Behrensmeyer/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32198: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 10.06.2003

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