Malusteni: Pliocene, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Talpidae
Radulescu and Samson 1989
Mammalia - Bovidae
"Parabos" athanasiui
Radulescu and Samson 2001
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Plesippus (Allohippus) cf. euxinicus
Radulescu and Samson 2001
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Prospalax rumanus
Radulescu and Samson 2001
Mimomys moldavicus
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Geoemyda malustensis n. sp. Macarovici and Vanca 1960
Khosatzky and Mlynarski 1966 1 specimen
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
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Testudo grandis n. sp. Macarovici and Vancea 1959
Macarovici and Vancea 1959
nomen dubium belonging to Chelydridae
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)
Reptilia - Phasianidae
cf. Palaeortyx intermedia Ballman 1966
Gohlich 2003
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania State/province:Southern Moldavia
Coordinates: 46.2° North, 27.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.3° North, 27.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Early Pliocene, Earliest Romanian or Dacian/Romanian boundary, MN15a, Cochiti event.
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Feeding/predation traces:gastric dissolution
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Mimomys specimens are held in the Laboratory of Paleontology, University of Bucharest.
Taxonomic list comments:First appearance of a very primitive representative of the genus Mimomys. Type locality for the species Mimomys moldavicus. It is suggested that this is related to migration from Asia following climatic cooling, and that the environment of this site was more humid than that of Beresti. Also, Plesippus may represent one of the earliest mondactyl horses found in Eurasia.
Metadata
Database number:39424
Authorizer:A. Turner, J. Marcot, P. Barrett, L. van den Hoek Ostende, M. Uhen, E. Vlachos Enterer:H. O'Regan, L. van den Hoek Ostende, M. Uhen, E. Vlachos, J. Marcot, T. Cleary
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-05-28 08:29:00 Last modified:2004-06-21 07:45:30
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-28 08:29:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10650.PACED 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]

Secondary references:

62999 E. Cregut-Bonnoure and E. Tsoukala. 2017. The Pliocene Artiodactyla and Proboscidea (Mammalia) from Gephyra (lower Axios valley, Macedonia, Greece). Discovery of a new boselaphine. Quaternary International [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
40668 U. B. Gohlich. 2003. The avifauna of the Grund Beds (Middle Miocene, Early Badenian, northern Austria). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A 104:237-249 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/T. Liebrecht]
58768 L. I. Khosatzky and M. Mlynarski. 1966. Fossil tortoises of the genus Geoemyda Gray, 1834 (s. lat.) of Europe. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 11(13):397-421 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]
64335 N. Macarovici and S. Vancea. 1959. Sur les restes de tortues de la faune de Malusteni de la Moldavie méridionale (R.P. Roumaine). Annales des Sciences de l’Université de Jassy, 2. Sciences Naturelles 6:377-386 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
10886PACED C. Radulescu and P. Samson. 1989. Contributions to the knowledge of the mammalian faunas from Malusteni and Beresti (Romania), Order Rodentia, Family Arvicolidae. Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie "Emile Racovitza" 1989(28):43-56 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]
25482 C. Radulescu and P.-M. Samson. 1989. Contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian faunas from Malusteni and Beresti (Romania). Order Insectivora, family Talpidae. Miscellanea Speologica Romanica 1:303-311 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/M. Uhen]
10720PACED C. Radulescu and P.-M. Samson. 2001. Biochronology and evolution of the Early Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene mammalian faunas of Romania. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):285-291 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]