Also known as Betfia VII/4a Somleu Hill

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

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Site overview: the site of Betfia has a height of 8m and encompasses four complexes of layers. The last (level 4) is made up of loess-like deposits, accumulated in sub-aerial conditions. Level 4 comprises two layers of loess separated by a fossil soil. Level 4a is the first loess level and is correlated with Glacial A of the Cromerian (= Early Middle Pleistocene, approx. 0.7Ma)

Environment/lithology: loess

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 34010: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 12.08.2003

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