Where: Tighina Departement, Moldova (46.6° N, 29.7° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 29.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• The original age is Meotian (or Meotic)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, green, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. N. Macarovici. 1936. Restes de mammiferes fossiles de la Bessarabie meridionale. Ann. Sci. Univ. Jassy 22:349-367 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36143: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 14.01.2004, edited by Mark Uhen and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Testudo bessarabica" = Protestudo bessarabica1
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Mammalia | |
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"Dinotherium giganteum" = Deinotherium giganteum1
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"Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti
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Aceratherium incissivum, "Rhinoceros schleiermacheri" = Dihoplus schleiermacheri
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Gazella deperdita gazelle | |
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