Where: Slovakia (47.9° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 18.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quaternary (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "On the basis of paleontologic material the fossiliferous bed ins ranged to the late Villafranchian, i.e. to the initial Quaternary phase (pre-Danubian). According to the authors, the older, partly redeposited secondary faunal elements of the Plio-Pleistocene type were locally transported from the close vicinity (from older sedimentary beds). The mixed fauna represents the Villafranchian type..."

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; poorly lithified, gray sandstone and poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Holec. 1985. Finds of mastodon (Proboscidea, Mammalia) relics in Neogene and Quaternary sediments of Slovakia (CSSR). Zapadne Karpaty, ser. paleontologia 10:13-53 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34583: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 10.09.2003, edited by Hannah O'Regan

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