Where: Vaslui, Romania (46.6° N, 27.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 26.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Muncelu Member (Scheia Formation), Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)
• At Draxeni, the basal member - if present - does not crop out. In these circumstances, the sand in the open pit could be related to the Muncelu Member.
Environment/lithology: shoreface; silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• The vertebrate fossils are curated at the Natural Science Branch, Bârlad Museum.
Primary reference: V. Codrea and L. Ursachi. 2007. The Sarmatian vertebrates from Draxeni (Moldavian Platform). Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Geologia 52(2):19-28 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197472: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 13.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"? Lagomerycinae indet." = Lagomerycidae
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Aceratherium incisivum Cuvier 1824 rhinoceros Left P4; left M2 fragment; right p3; left ? Mc V; lower ? premolar, abraded by rolling
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