Groserea: Pliocene, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon borsoni
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus cf. jeanvireti Guérin 1972
recombined as Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. simionescui
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus cf. perrieri Croizet and Jobert 1828
recombined as Praeelaphus perrieri
Metacervocerus pardinensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 44.7° North, 23.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.9° North, 23.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Pliocene. Same level as Covirigi (sands and gravels). MN16.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Same level as Covirigi (sands and gravels).
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:41919
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-07-22 04:15:12 Last modified:2004-07-22 07:17:23
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-22 04:15:12
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]