Ciuperceni 1: Ruscinian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Pliopetaurista dehneli
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoridae indet. Gray 1821
Trogontherium minus
Mammalia - Talpidae
Desmana getica Terzea 1980
synonym of Dibolia bifida
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus cf. megarhinus (de Christol 1835)
misspelling Dihoplus megarhinus
Mammalia - Suidae
? Sus minor
very small Suidae (? Sus minor).
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
? Cervus australis de Serres 1838
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]