Where: Romania (45.8° N, 25.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 25.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• In the Baraolt Basin, Brasov Depression. Middle Pleistocene, 'Cromerian complex'. Roughly equivalent to Tarko layers 10-5, Hundsheim, Mosbach main level, St. Esteve Janson layers F-G and Westbury 'Rodent earth'. Cool, temperate wet climate, interrupted at the base by a steppe interval (lower upper level 1). 'A polygonal ground indicating periglacial conditions superposed by remnants of a red fossil soil are intercalated between the upper levels 1 and 2.'
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: C. Radulescu and P. Samson. 1985. Pliocene and Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy in southeastern Transylvania (Romania). Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie "Emile Racovitza". 24:85-95 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40260: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 21.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Sicista cf. subtilis Pallas 1773 southern birch mouse | |
Spalax sp. Güldenstadt 1770 blind mole
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
Parapodemus coronensis Schaub 1938 mouse | |
"Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes vole
Pliomys episcopalis mouse | |
Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver
Trogontherium cf. cuvieri Owen 1846 beaver | |
Lepus cf. europaeus Pallas 1778 European hare | |
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole | |
Neomys sp. Kaup 1829 water shrew
Sorex subaraneus long-tailed shrew | |
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