Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 39(1) 1996

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VOL 39(1) 1996

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Biochronology, Pleistocene, karst deposits, Mammalia, Biharian, Betfia, Romania

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Biochronology of the Pleistocene deposits at Betfia (Bihor, Romania)

• Elena TERZEA

Abstract:

The author presents the chronological succession of the mammalian assemblages of six Pleistocene deposits discovered during the last three decades in the karst of Betfia (Bihor, Romania). This succession, covering the entire Biharian (Eburonian to middle of the Cromerian Complex), is based on the composition of mammal associations, on the evolutionary level of the representatives of some arvicolid lineages found in all sites and sometimes on stratigraphical superposition (B-VII). A list of mammal species identified in each site is given and a biochronological sketch is drawn up, pointing out the position of the Betfia faunal sequence in the Pleistocene framework.