Where: Southern Moldavia, Romania (46.2° N, 27.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 27.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Early Pliocene, Earliest Romanian or Dacian/Romanian boundary, MN15a, Cochiti event.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Mimomys specimens are held in the Laboratory of Paleontology, University of Bucharest.
Primary reference: C. Radulesco and P. -M. Samson. 1996. Pliocene and Early Pleistocene arvicolids (Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Dacic Basin, Romania. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 39(1):401-406 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39424: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 28.05.2004, edited by Jonathan Marcot, Lars van den Hoek Ostende, Mark Uhen, Terri Cleary and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Geoemyda malustensis n. sp.2
Geoemyda malustensis n. sp.2 Macarovici and Vanca 1960 turtle Holotype: Left pleural PI. I of small specimen with distinct grooves of centrals Centr. 1-2 and very well preserved sculpture of surface. Geol. Lab., Al. J. Cusa University, Romania
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Testudo grandis n. sp.3
Testudo grandis n. sp.3 Macarovici and Vancea 1959 turtle GIUI uncat. (lectotype), a peripheral (Macarovici and Vancea 1959, pl. 1.12); GIUI uncat. (paralectotypes), three shell fragments (Macarovici and Vancea 1959, pl. 2.7–9)
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Mammalia | |
Mimomys moldavicus vole | |
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