Betfia 7 level 1a: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Glis sackdillingensis Heller 1930
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota sp. Frisch 1775
Spermophilus primigenius
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Sicista praeloriger Kormos 1930
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829
Apodemus gr. sylvaticus sp.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Pliomys episcopalis
Cricetus cricetus (Linnaeus 1758)
Cricetus cricetus praeglacialis
Ungaromys cf. nanus
Lagurus arankae
Prolagurus praepannonicus
Mimomys pusillus
Mimomys ? tornensis
Clethrionomys sp. Tilesius 1850
synonym of Myodes
Lemmus aff. lemmus (Linnaeus 1758)
Microtus pliocaenicus (Kormos 1932)
original and current combination Allophaiomys pliocaenicus
Microtus (A.) pliocaenicus pliocaenicus
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus brachygnathus
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona sp. Link 1795
Mammalia - Soricidae
Beremendia fissidens (Petényi 1864)
Sorex ex gr. minutus Linnaeus 1766
Sorex gr. minutus
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Gulo schlosseri Kormos 1914
synonym of Gulo gulo
Mustela praenivalis Kormos 1934
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania County:Bihor
Coordinates: 47.0° North, 22.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.9° North, 22.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Early/Lower Quaternary *Epoch:Early/Lower Pleistocene
*International age/stage:Middle Waalian *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Biharian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: 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).
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Level 1a is the basal complex in the cave fillings, containing speleotherm fragments and cracked stones.
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: sites discovered between 1966 and 1991 and excavated by the Bucharest Speleological Institute and the "Tarii Crisurilor" Museum of Oradea.
Metadata
Also known as:Betfia VII/1a, Somleu Hill
Database number:32198
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-06-10 08:11:25 Last modified:2003-08-12 07:13:23
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-10 08:11:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8655. 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]