Loess 3, Fintina Fagului Quarry, near Araci (Pleistocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.8° N, 25.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 25.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Pleistocene, Mindel

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: loess; gray, yellow siltstone

• loessic siltstone, ranging in color from yellowish to grayish

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Radulesco and A. Kovacs. 1974. Note sur les Bovides pleistocenes d'Araci-Fintina Fagului (bassin de Baraolt, depression de Brasov). Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie "Emile Racovitza", Bucharest 13:125-137 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36126: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 14.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison cf. priscus
Bison cf. priscus Bojanus 1827 bison
radio-cubitus