Where: Tighina Departement, Moldova (46.7° N, 28.7° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 28.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• The original age is Meotian
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, green, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: material collected by Macarovici himself
Primary reference: G. N. Macarovici. 1936. Restes de mammiferes fossiles de la Bessarabie meridionale. Ann. Sci. Univ. Jassy 22:349-367 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36139: 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 | |
"Mastodon borsoni" = Mammut borsoni
"Mastodon borsoni" = Mammut borsoni Hays 1834 mastodon | |
Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833 cat | |
"Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti
"Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti Sondaar 1974 hipparionine horse | |
Aceratherium incisivum Cuvier 1824 rhinoceros | |
"Sus major" = Microstonyx major
"Sus major" = Microstonyx major Gervais 1848 pig | |
"Damacerus bessarabica" = Cervavitus
"Damacerus bessarabica" = Cervavitus deer | |
Helladotherium duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856 giraffe | |
Gazella deperdita gazelle | |
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare |