Fratesti 3 (Fratesti s.s.) (Pleistocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (44.1° N, 26.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 26.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Early part of the Cromerian complex. Tiraspolian, Lower Middle Pleistocene.

Environment/lithology:

• upper horizon of sands and gravels.

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 41920: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 22.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth
evolved form.
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae