| Abstrakt: |
From structural viewpoint, Vaslui County is located at the contact of two main platforms of Romania, i.e. the SW side of the East European (locally named Moldavian") at North and a sector of the Scythian one at South. Of interest for this study are the deposits of the last sedimentary megasequence, which offers fair opportunities for studying the Neogene land vertebrate communities. Such faunas lived in the Dacian Basin region in proportion as the emerged land gradually extended to the detriment of the marine-brackish realm, mainly since Middle Miocene (Sarmatian). Among newcomers, one can notice mainly reptiles and mammals that arrived either from east, or from southwestern regions. If such fossils were once discovered only due to fortuitous finds, in the last decade some new localities of large national or international interest were set on by systematic diggings. Among these ones, the most noticeable are: Draxeni (Late Bessarabian), Cre?e?ti-Dobrina 1 (Khersonian), Pogana, Mânza?i and Gherghe?ti (Meotian). All yielded rich vertebrate assemblages, including new taxa for this region and for Romania. Due to these discoveries, Miocene environments could be better reconstructed, as long as among these taxa some are useful markers. Herein, we propose new geological-paleontological protected sites and areas based on these localities. For instance, they are extremely scarce in Vaslui County, none of them concerning Miocene deposits. In this manner, the geological heritage of this region would be better show to good advantage, mainly for the wellbeing of the local communities. A series of protection and conservation proposals are underlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
