Also known as Milcovu 2
Where: Romania (44.4° N, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 24.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Early Pleistocene, 'magnetically reversed sands situated above deposits of normal magnetism assigned to the Olduvai event.' In the cut of the Milcovu din Vale and the Olt, beds 26-29.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39869: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 10.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Paracamelus alutensis Stefanescu 1895 camel | |
Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth |