Also known as Araci Fintina Fagului, Layer 1.
Where: Romania (45.8° N, 25.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 25.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Upper Pliocene, MN16a. In the lower level, white sands (layer 1, near the base) of Fintina Fagului.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Radulescu and P. Samson. 1985. Pliocene and Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy in southeastern Transylvania (Romania). Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie "Emile Racovitza". 24:85-95 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40123: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 18.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Zygolophodon borsoni mastodon | |
Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere | |
Dicerorhinus cf. elatus rhinoceros skull with nasal septum. Syn Rhinoceros etruscus var. astensis = Dicerorhinus jeanvireti
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Metacervocerus cf. pardinensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 deer |