Betfia 7 level 1a: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Romania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
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Glis sackdillingensis
Heller 1930
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Marmota sp.
Frisch 1775
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Spermophilus primigenius
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Zapodidae
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Sicista praeloriger
Kormos 1930
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Apodemus sp.
Kaup 1829
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Apodemus gr. sylvaticus sp. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Pliomys episcopalis
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Cricetus cricetus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Cricetus cricetus praeglacialis | ||||||||||
Ungaromys cf. nanus
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Lagurus arankae
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Prolagurus praepannonicus
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Mimomys pusillus
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Mimomys ? tornensis
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Clethrionomys sp.
Tilesius 1850
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synonym of Myodes | ||||||||||
Lemmus aff. lemmus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Microtus pliocaenicus
(Kormos 1932)
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original and current combination Allophaiomys pliocaenicus | ||||||||||
Microtus (A.) pliocaenicus pliocaenicus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus brachygnathus
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Ochotona sp.
Link 1795
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Beremendia fissidens
(Petényi 1864)
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Sorex ex gr. minutus
Linnaeus 1766
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Sorex gr. minutus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Chiroptera
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Chiroptera indet.
Blumenbach 1779
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Gulo schlosseri
Kormos 1914
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synonym of Gulo gulo | ||||||||||
Mustela praenivalis
Kormos 1934
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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] |