Where: Romania (43.8° N, 24.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 24.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Ruscinian (5.3 - 3.2 Ma)
• Very latest Lower Pliocene, Latest Ruscinian, MN 14. There are two levels at the site with different colours, consistency, petrographic content and fauna. Ciuperceni 1 is the lower level - 'le complexe de strates grisatres'.
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: E. Terzea. 1981. Remarques sur la biostratigraphie du Pliocene du sud de la Plaine Roumanie (Zone de Turni-Magurele). Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie 'Emile Racovitza' 20:113-126 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40795: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 01.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Dicerorhinus cf. megarhinus" = Dihoplus megarhinus
"Dicerorhinus cf. megarhinus" = Dihoplus megarhinus de Christol 1835 rhinoceros | |
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer | |
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"Desmana getica" = Dibolia bifida
"Desmana getica" = Dibolia bifida Engesser 1980 Russian desman | |
Pliopetaurista dehneli squirrel | |
Castoridae indet. Gray 1821 beaver
Trogontherium minus beaver |