Covrigi: Pliocene, Romania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Stephanorhinus elatus
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Radulescu and Samson 2001 | |||||||||
= Dicerorhinus cf. jeanvireti
Guérin 1972
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Feru et al. 1983 | |||||||||
= Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
Guérin 1972
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Radulescu and Samson 2001 | |||||||||
Dicerorhinus cf. etruscus
(Falconer 1868)
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= Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
Guérin 1972
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Radulescu and Samson 2001 | |||||||||
D. etruscus not mentioned again, and is regarded as a younger species than those found at Covrigi. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Radulescu and Samson 2001 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus perrieri
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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Radulescu and Samson 2001 | |||||||||
recombined as Praeelaphus perrieri | ||||||||||
Metacervocerus pardinensis
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Anancus arvernensis
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut borsoni
(Hays 1834)
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Radulescu and Samson 2001 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Romania |
Coordinates: | 44.7° North, 23.2° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 44.9° North, 22.8° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Pliocene, early Gauss chron. |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: The fauna is from the lower part of a sand and gravel horizon situated between coal beds 12 and 15. |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 39682 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2004-06-03 07:52:55 | Last modified: | 2004-07-22 07:02:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-03 07:52:55 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11201. | PACED | M. U. Feru, C. Radulescu, and P. Samson. 1983. Succession des Mammiferes Plio-Pleistocenes dans le Bassin Dacique (Roumanie). Ann. Inst. Geol. Geophys. 59:161-167 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
Secondary references:
10720 | PACED | C. Radulescu and P.-M. Samson. 2001. Biochronology and evolution of the Early Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene mammalian faunas of Romania. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):285-291 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |