Cernatesti: Pliocene, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Archidiskodon" rumanus
    = Mammuthus rumanus
Radulescu and Samson 2001
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon borsoni
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus cf. etruscus (Falconer 1868)
    = Stephanorhinus cf. etruscus Falconer 1868
O'Regan 2003
Dicerorhinus cf. jeanvireti Guérin 1972
recombined as Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
Mammalia - Cervidae
Metacervocerus pardinensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 23.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.6° North, 23.1° 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 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Pliocene.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: part of the middle horizon of sand and gravels, identified as the middle horizon du 'Levantin'.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:39685
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-06-03 08:29:39 Last modified:2004-07-22 07:36:10
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-03 08:29:39
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:

9580PACED H. J. O'Regan. 2003. Reidentifications and synonomies of European mammals. [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]
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]