Covrigi: Pliocene, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus elatus
Radulescu and Samson 2001
    = Dicerorhinus cf. jeanvireti Guérin 1972
Feru et al. 1983
    = Stephanorhinus jeanvireti Guérin 1972
Radulescu and Samson 2001
Dicerorhinus cf. etruscus (Falconer 1868)
    = Stephanorhinus jeanvireti Guérin 1972
Radulescu and Samson 2001
D. etruscus not mentioned again, and is regarded as a younger species than those found at Covrigi.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Radulescu and Samson 2001
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus perrieri Croizet and Jobert 1828
Radulescu and Samson 2001
recombined as Praeelaphus perrieri
Metacervocerus pardinensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut borsoni (Hays 1834)
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:

10720PACED 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]