Where: Hunedoara Departement, Romania (45.5° N, 23.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 18.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)
• The 2m-thick layer is above a sandy level and below a lacustrine limestone
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•Middle Eocene according to Radulesco & Samson (1987)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Radulesco, G. Iliesco, and M. Iliesco. 1976. Un Embrithopode nouveau (Mammalia) dans le Paleogene de la depression de Hateg (Roumanie) et la geologie de la region. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte (11)690-698 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36132: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 14.01.2004, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Crivadiatherium mackennai n. gen. n. sp., Crivadiatherium iliescui n. sp.
Crivadiatherium mackennai n. gen. n. sp. Radulesco et al. 1976 placental
Crivadiatherium iliescui n. sp. Radulesco and Sudre 1985 placental |