Where: Romania (45.5° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 23.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Mousterian age demonstrated by stone tools. The first excavation provided 24 taxa from 47 specimens, but the stratigraphic origin of only 14 taxa from 21 remains is certain, coming from Mousterian II-IV layers. Therefore the bird assemblage from this cave is treated as "Mousterian fauna" and "Late or Post-Paleolithic fauna" respectively. The second excavation yielded only 3 taxa from 7 remains, all of them coming from Mousterian deposits.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.S. Nicolaescu-Plopsor; A. Paunesco in 1954-1955; 1994

Primary reference: E. Gál. 2003. Bird remains from Curata and Bordu Mare caves (Romania). Archaeofauna 12:183-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 197949: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2018

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