Where: Central Dobrogea, Romania (44.7° N, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 27.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Middle Pleistocene, tentative correlation with Glacial A of the Cromerian complex. The fauna is from a basal loessic deposit.
Environment/lithology: karst
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: C. Radulescu, P. Enciu, and A. Petculescu. 2000. On the presence of Prolagurus and Allophaiomys in the Dacic Basin. Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie 'Emole Racovitza' 36:119-133 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40805: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 01.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Eolagurus gromovi, Microtus sp., "Stenocranius sp." = Microtus (Stenocranius), Lagurus posterius, Cricetulus migratorius
"Stenocranius sp." = Microtus (Stenocranius) Kastschenko 1901 vole Stenocranius hintoni / gregaloides
Cricetulus migratorius Pallas 1773 mouse |