Etuliya: MN 15, Moldova
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Paracamelus alexejevi
Khavesson 1950
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus ? perrieri
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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recombined as Praeelaphus perrieri | ||||||||||
Cervus ? pardinensis
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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recombined as Metacervocerus pardinensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Promephitis sp.
Gaudry 1861
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Pannonictis pliocaenicus
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Martes sp.
Frisch 1775
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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"Canis" odessanus
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originally Vulpes odessanus | ||||||||||
Vulpes praecorsac
Kormos 1932
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Anancus arvernensis
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Coluber viridiflavus
Lacépède 1789
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Szyndlar 1991 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Ophisaurus fejfari
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Syromyatnikova et al. 2022 | |||||||||
One incomplete parietal ZIN PH 50/279 | ||||||||||
Pseudopus pannonicus
(Kormos 1911)
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Loréal et al. 2023 | |||||||||
five pari- etals (ZIN PH 2/279, 3/279, 4/279, 5/279, 6/279), one dentary (ZIN PH 1/279), one presacral vertebra (ZIN PH 7/279), and 11 osteoderms (ZIN PH 8-18/279) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Moldova |
Coordinates: | 45.5° North, 28.4° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 45.7° North, 28.1° East |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | MN 15 | ||
Age range of interval: | 4.20000 - 3.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Karbolia | ||||
Regional section: | Karboliya | Regional bed: | Karboliya | ||
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Pliocene, Middle Ruscinian.
Both Etuliya and Lucheshty localities occur in the Karbolia (= Karboliya, Carbolia) Fluvial Formation (= Karboliya Beds), which is widely exposed in the valleys of Pruth, Danube and Yalpug rivers in the south-western part of Moldova. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | alluvial fan |
Geology comments: In the Karboliya alluvium. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Collection method comments: Small mammals have been collected from the alluvium but are not listed here.
The materials studied here are stored in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia (hereinafter – ZIN PH and ZISP). T |
Metadata
Also known as: | Etulia, Etulija, Novaya Etuliya | ||
Database number: | 50940 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner, J. Head, T. Cleary | Enterer: | H. O'Regan, T. Cleary, G. Varnham |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | PACED,vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-05-25 03:06:15 | Last modified: | 2023-06-30 05:01:27 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-05-25 03:06:15 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13592. | PACED | E. A. Vangengeim, I. A. Vislobokova, and M. V. Sotnikova. 1998. Large Ruscinian Mammalia in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 6(4):368-382 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
Secondary references:
85147 | E. Loréal, E. V. Syromyatnikova, and I. G. Danilov and A. 2023. The easternmost record of the largest anguine lizard that has ever lived – Pseudopus pannonicus (Squamata, Anguidae): new fossils from the late Neogene of Eastern Europe. Fossil Record 26(1):51-84 [J. Head/G. Varnham] | |
85146 | E. Syromyatnikova, J. Klembara, and O. Redkozubov. 2022. The Pliocene Ophisaurus (Anguidae) from Eastern Europe: new records and additions to the history of the genus and its palaeoenvironment. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments [J. Head/G. Varnham] | |
70878 | Z. Szyndlar. 1991. A review of Neogene and Quaternary snakes of Central and Eastern Europe. Part I: Scolecophidia, Boidae, Colubrinae. Estudios Geológicos 47:103-126 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary] |