Fintina lui Mitilan (lower faunal level), Tetoiu 2 middle faunal horizon: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Romania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Allocaenelephas sp.
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| primitive form. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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| typical form. 1 almost complete skeleton, 1 partial skeleton, 3 mandibles with deciduous dentition, isolated limb bones (both adult and juvenile) and isolated teeth. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Eucladoceros sp.
Falconer 1868
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor plicidens
Major 1874
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| synonym of Castor fiber | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Romania |
| Coordinates: | 44.7° North, 23.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.7° North, 23.8° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local bed: | Tetoiu 2 middle faunal horizon | ||||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Regional section: | Dacic Basin | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Early Pleistocene. Faunal comparison indicates that the Middle Faunal Horizon (Tetoiu 2) correlates with the ?Tasso faunal unit, Seneze zone, Eburonian cold stage and Domashkinianhorizon/Odessan faunal complex. The middle faunal horizon corresponds to a general cooling and drying of the climate. The deposits consist of a basal succession of clays and sands, 8m thick, which underlies a sequence 6m thick, consisting predominantly of sands with gravel lenses. The main fossiliferous bed (lower faunal level), 1.4-1.5m thick is located 1m above the basal succession. It is represented at the base by alternating coarse sands and gravel lenses and portions of cemented silty sediment. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: Alternating coarse sands and gravel lenses and portions of cemented silty sediment. | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: The Middle faunal horizon is at the top of a 40m sequence of sands with gravel and pebble lenses and thin clay intercalations. 'The beds have an average dip of 1 to 2 degrees SE.' | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 39865 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2004-06-10 04:07:45 | Last modified: | 2004-06-10 07:32:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-10 04:07:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10805. | PACED | C. Radulesco and P. Samson. 1990. The Plio-Pleistocene mammalian succession of the Oltet Valley, Dacic Basin, Romania. Quatarpalaontologie 8:225-232 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |