Ciuperceni 1: Ruscinian, Romania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Pliopetaurista dehneli
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Trogontherium minus
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Desmana getica
Terzea 1980
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synonym of Dibolia bifida | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus cf. megarhinus
(de Christol 1835)
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misspelling Dihoplus megarhinus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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? Sus minor
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very small Suidae (? Sus minor). | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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? Cervus australis
de Serres 1838
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Muntjacines (? 'Cervus' australis de Serres) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Romania |
Coordinates: | 43.8° North, 24.9° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° North, 24.8° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Ruscinian | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Local bed: | 1 | ||||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Very latest Lower Pliocene, Latest Ruscinian, MN 14. There are two levels at the site with different colours, consistency, petrographic content and fauna. Ciuperceni 1 is the lower level - 'le complexe de strates grisatres'. |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: 'Le complexe infereieur (0.9-1M) forme de sable limoneux gris verdatre, a fines intercalations d'arglie brune ou gris clair vers la partie superieure, se remarque, au point de vue petrograhique, par la presence de nombreux blocs de silex (25-30cm diametre), aux aretes souvent emoussees, par la frequence elevee des peierres calcaires plus ou moins roulees, et par l'apparition sporadique de petits fragments, fortement roules, de gres, micaschiste, gneiss, amphibolite et de quartzite.' p. 115. |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 40795 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2004-07-01 05:11:01 | Last modified: | 2004-07-01 08:33:31 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-01 05:11:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11017. | PACED | E. Terzea. 1981. Remarques sur la biostratigraphie du Pliocene du sud de la Plaine Roumanie (Zone de Turni-Magurele). Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie 'Emile Racovitza' 20:113-126 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |