Where: Romania (45.8° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 22.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Mousterian age demonstrated by stone tools
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C.S. Nicolaescu-Plopsor in 1955-1956
Primary reference: E. Gál. 2003. Bird remains from Curata and Bordu Mare caves (Romania). Archaeofauna 12:183-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 197947: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Pyrrhocorax graculus Linnaeus 1766 yellow-billed chough
Corvus corax Linnaeus 1758 common raven | |
"Anas cf. clypeata" = Spatula clypeata
"Anas cf. clypeata" = Spatula clypeata Linnaeus 1758 northern shoveler | |
Strix aluco Linnaeus 1758 tawny owl
Asio flammeus Pontoppidan 1763 short-eared owl | |
Haliaeetus albicilla Linnaeus 1758 white-tailed eagle
Circus macrourus Gmelin 1770 Pallid harrier | |
Reptilia | |
Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus 1758 western capercaillie |