Balta proboscidean: Pliocene, Romania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut praetypicum
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| complete mandible with dentition in situ, partly preserved right premax, max, jugal, lacrimal, orbit, postorbital process and frontal | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Romania |
| Coordinates: | 45.0° North, 26.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.1° North, 25.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Altitude: | 397 meters |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: no stratigraphic info available, probably came from same unit as other mastodon-bearing units in the area called the \"Balta sandbeds" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red,yellow sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,white "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: reddish-gold sand and white limestone | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,permineralized |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
| Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: this mastodon "was probably found at the end of the nineteenth century or at the beginning of the twentieth century, by a landowner and amature naturalist. If 1912-13 the unprepared skull was transported to Jagiellonian University, where it was prepared" | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 32239 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
| Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-06-16 15:49:30 | Last modified: | 2003-07-14 18:14:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-06-16 15:49:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8691. | 5% 31660 | H. Kubiak. 1972. The skull of Mammut praetypicum (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the collection of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 13:305-324 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |