Fratesti 3 (Fratesti s.s.): Middle Pleistocene, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cervidae
Praemegaceros verticornis
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
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]