Rotbav-Dealul Tiganilor, lower upper level 1, (level 2).: Middle Pleistocene, Romania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Cricetus praeglacialis
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Lagurus cf. transiens
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Romania |
Coordinates: | 45.8° North, 25.6° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 45.9° North, 25.4° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Regional section: | Baraolt Basin | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: In the Baraolt Basin, Brasov Depression. Middle Pleistocene, 'Cromerian complex'. Roughly equivalent to Tarko layers 10-5, Hundsheim, Mosbach main level, St. Esteve Janson layers F-G and Westbury 'Rodent earth'. Steppe interval (based on fauna). |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: light olive gray silty lenses intercalated with the clay in the lower part of upper level 1. |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 40261 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2004-06-21 04:09:30 | Last modified: | 2004-06-21 07:09:31 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-21 04:09:30 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
10873. | PACED | 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] |