Milcovu din Vale-2: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Camelidae
Paracamelus alutensis Stefanescu 1895
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 44.4° North, 24.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.5° North, 24.2° 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
Regional section:Dacic Basin
Stratigraphy comments: Early Pleistocene, 'magnetically reversed sands situated above deposits of normal magnetism assigned to the Olduvai event.' In the cut of the Milcovu din Vale and the Olt, beds 26-29.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Sands abd gravels.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Milcovu 2
Database number:39869
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-06-10 04:53:48 Last modified:2004-07-22 08:05:46
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-10 04:53:48
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]