Lisa: Villanyian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon cf. rumanus
synonym of Mammuthus
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Capreolus sized.
Cervus ? pardinensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
recombined as Metacervocerus pardinensis
Cervus sp. (? pardinensis)
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 43.8° North, 25.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° North, 25.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Villanyian
Age range of interval:3.10000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Pliocene, MN16b based on the association of Anancus and a primitive Archidiskodon. Fauna has been recovered during gravel extraction, with the exception of the cervids which were found during investigations in 1980.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: 'un horizon de sable brun rougeatre a gravier riche en silex et calcaire, ce depot a livre.'
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Material is held in various collections, some at the local school in Lisa.
Metadata
Database number:40797
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-07-01 05:44:36 Last modified:2004-07-01 08:46:51
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-01 05:44:36
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]