Fratesti 3 (Fratesti s.s.): Middle Pleistocene, Romania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Praemegaceros verticornis
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Archidiskodon meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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recombined as Mammuthus meridionalis | ||||||||||
evolved form. | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Romania |
Coordinates: | 44.1° North, 26.3° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 44.2° North, 26.2° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Early part of the Cromerian complex. Tiraspolian, Lower Middle Pleistocene. |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: upper horizon of sands and gravels. |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 41920 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2004-07-22 05:29:39 | Last modified: | 2004-07-22 08:29:39 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-22 05:29:39 |
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] |