Etuliya: MN 15, Moldova

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus sp. Gloger 1841
Mammalia - Camelidae
Paracamelus alexejevi Khavesson 1950
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus ? perrieri Croizet and Jobert 1828
recombined as Praeelaphus perrieri
Cervus ? pardinensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
recombined as Metacervocerus pardinensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Promephitis sp. Gaudry 1861
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Pannonictis pliocaenicus
Martes sp. Frisch 1775
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis" odessanus
originally Vulpes odessanus
Vulpes praecorsac Kormos 1932
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Reptilia - Colubridae
Coluber viridiflavus Lacépède 1789
Szyndlar 1991
Reptilia - Anguidae
Ophisaurus fejfari
Syromyatnikova et al. 2022
One incomplete parietal ZIN PH 50/279
Pseudopus pannonicus (Kormos 1911)
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]