Also known as Betfia X, Somleu Hill
Where: Romania (47.0° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 22.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Fewer members of the genus Mimomys, prevalence of arhizodont arvicolids, plus the primitive and homogenous morphology of Microtus has led site to be dated on biostratigraphic grounds to the Lower Waalian (~1.4-~1.3Ma). Abundance of Muridae and the occurence of Glirulus pusillus are in any case evidence of a temperate phase.
Environment/lithology: cave
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• Caves discovered between 1966 and 1991 and excavated by the Bucharest Speleological Institute and the "Tarii Crisurilor" Museum of Oradea.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32192: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 10.06.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Glis sackdillingensis Heller 1930 dormouse
"Glirulus pusillus" = Amphidyromys pusillus Heller 1936 Japanese dormouse
Muscardinus dacicus Kormos 1930 dormouse | |
Spermophilus primigenius ground squirrel
Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 squirrel | |
"Apodemus ex gr. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus, Spalax sp.
"Apodemus ex gr. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
Spalax sp. Güldenstadt 1770 blind mole | |
Pliomys episcopalis, Cricetus cricetus, Ungaromys cf. nanus, Lagurus arankae, Mimomys pusillus, Mimomys tornensis, "Microtus pliocaenicus" = Allophaiomys pliocaenicus, Allocricetus bursae
Pliomys episcopalis mouse
Ungaromys cf. nanus mouse
Lagurus arankae mouse
Mimomys pusillus vole
Mimomys tornensis vole
"Microtus pliocaenicus" = Allophaiomys pliocaenicus Kormos 1932 vole M. (A.) pliocaenicus pliocaenicus
Allocricetus bursae mouse | |
Hypolagus brachygnathus rabbit
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare | |
Beremendia fissidens, Petenyia hungarica, Sorex margaritodon, Episoriculus gibberodon, Crocidura sp.
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Petenyia hungarica Kormos 1934 red-toothed shrew
Sorex margaritodon Kormos 1930 long-tailed shrew
Episoriculus gibberodon Petenyi 1864 red-toothed shrew
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew | |
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
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