Betfia 9: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Macaca sylvana (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Macaca sylvanus
M. sylvana cf. florentina
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona sp. Link 1795
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus brachygnathus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Sicista praeloriger Kormos 1930
S. praeloriger sp.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Spalax sp. Güldenstadt 1770
Apodemus ex gr. sylvaticus (Linnaeus 1758)
original and current combination Mus sylvaticus
A. gr. sylvaticus sp.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetus cricetus (Linnaeus 1758)
C. cricetus nanus
Prolagurus praepannonicus
Microtus pliocaenicus (Kormos 1932)
original and current combination Allophaiomys pliocaenicus
M. (A.) pliocaenicus pliocaenicus
Clethrionomys sp. Tilesius 1850
synonym of Myodes
Mimomys pusillus
Mimomys tornensis
Lagurus arankae
Pliomys episcopalis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Muscardinus dacicus Kormos 1930
M. dacicus sp.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus primigenius
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Canis sp. ?mosbachensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela palerminea
Mustela praenivalis Kormos 1934
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpa cf. fossilis Petenyi 1864
Desmana thermalis Kormos 1930
D. thermalis sp.
Mammalia - Soricidae
Beremendia fissidens (Petényi 1864)
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832
Crocidura kornfeldi Kormos 1934
Sorex praearaneus Kormos 1934
Petenyia hungarica Kormos 1934
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania County:Bihor
Coordinates: 47.0° North, 22.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.9° North, 22.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Early/Lower Quaternary *Epoch:Early/Lower Pleistocene
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Waalian *Local age/stage:Biharian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Dated to a mild phase of the later Waalian (~1.3-1.2Ma).
Lithology and environment
Environment:fissure fill
Geology comments: A fissure-filling breccia with terra-rossa.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Caves discovered between 1966 and 1991 and excavated by the Bucharest Speleological Institute and the "Tarii Crisurilor" Museum of Oradea.
Metadata
Also known as:Betfia IX, Somleu Hill
Database number:32195
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-06-10 04:25:09 Last modified:2003-08-12 07:13:01
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-10 04:25:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8655. E. Terzea. 1996. Biochronology of the Pleistocene deposits at Betfia (Bihor, Romania). Acta Zoologica Cracovensia 39(1):531-540 [A. Behrensmeyer/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]