Also known as CR-1; Cretesti-1
Where: Ilfov, Romania (46.6° N, 28.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 27.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: MN 12–11 mammal zone, Moldavian Platform Group, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• The geological age of this locality was previously considered Vallesian, MN 9 (sensu Vangengeim & Tesakov 2013; Codrea et al. 2017). However, subsequent finds of some micromammals have cast doubt on this date. These concern the presence of a small-sized Lophocricetodon, and also of the pika Ochotona cf. eximia (Sen 2003; Čermák 2016; see Delinschi 2014, for a discussion about the unclear status of this genus) very similar to those reported from the Maeotian locality of Taraklia, in the Republic of Moldova (Tortonian, MN 12; Sevket Sen, pers. comm., 2021). Lungu et al. (2007) considered the late Miocene ‘Proochotona eximia Chom.’, where the vertebrate localities of the Republic of Moldova are located, as ‘early Maeotian–early Pontian’.
•The Maeotian was recently reassessed. In recent stratigraphical charts (Raffi et al. 2020; Krézsek & Olariu 2021), the Maeotian in the Dacian Basin was restricted to 7.6–6.1 Ma, referring only to units MN12–MN 13 (Steininger 1999). In this context, the pika implies dating to either to Maeotian (MN 12) or Khersonian (MN 11).
•As the correlations between the MN units from western and central Europe are being reconsidered (Vangengeim & Tesakov 2008, 2013), it is possible that some age boundaries will be re-assessed also, based on future advances in the knowledge of small mammals from this part of Europe and their evolutionary trends. Therefore, the geological age of Crețești 1 is re-interpreted as younger than previously presumed, being either Maeotian (MN 12), or late Khersonian (MN 11).
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; green mudstone and silty sandstone
•and buried at small distance from their initial origin."
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: V. Codrea, M. Venczel, L. Ursachi and B. Răţoi. 2017. A large viper from the early Vallesian (MN 9) of Moldova (Eastern Romania) with notes on the palaeobiogeography of late Miocene ‘‘Oriental vipers". Geobios 50:401-411 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 199755: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 13.02.2019, edited by Grace Varnham and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Planorbis sp. Muller 1774 snail | |
Mammalia | |
Choerolophodon pentelici Gaudry and Lartet 1856 proboscidean | |
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Acerorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros | |
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Hippopotamodon sp. Lydekker 1877 pig | |
Metailurus sp. Zdansky 1924 cat | |
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena | |
Schizogalerix sp. Engesser 1980 hedgehog spelled "Schizogaleryx" in paper, but referred to Erinaceomorpha so presumably is a mispelling
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? Proochotona sp. Chomenko 1914 pika | |
Spermophilinus bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel | |
Reptilia | |
Chalcides sp. Linnaeus 1758 skink | |
Coronella sp. Laurenti 1768 colubrid snake | |
"Macrovipera sp." = Vipera (Macrovipera)
"Macrovipera sp." = Vipera (Macrovipera) Reuss 1927 pit viper "frequent". Mentioned in paper: CR.5573/1-3, CR.5574/1-2, cervical vertebrae; CR.5575/1-9, CR.5576/1-4, CR.5577, CR.5578, CR. 5579/1-22, CR. 5580/1-16, middle trunk vertebrae; CR.5581, posterior trunk vertebra; CR.5582, cloacal vertebra; CR.5583, isolated rib
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Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates | |
sensu lato Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard | |
Testudo lohanica n. sp.2
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Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Amphibia | |
Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad | |
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