Slatina, Layer 4 (Pliocene of Romania)

Where: Wallachia Region, Romania (44.4° N, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 24.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; concretionary, ferruginous, sandy siltstone

• sandy siltstone and siltstone with two concretionary layers accompanied by some accumulations of iron oxydes.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Feru, C. Radulesco, and P. Samson. 1978. Biostratigraphie (micromammiferes) des depots plio-pleistocenes de la zone de Slatina (dep. d'Olt). Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie "Emile Racovitza", Bucharest 17:117-134 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35997: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 13.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758