%0 Journal Article %T Contributions to the knowledge of the Romanian from the western Dacian Basin: The molluscs¡¯ fauna from R carii de Jos (Dolj County) %A Tudor C. R. P£¿tru£¿oiu %A Ion P£¿tru£¿oiu %J Animal Biology & Animal Husbandry %D 2010 %I Bioflux Society %X In the western Dacian Basin, the Romanian age starts with a fauna comprised of carvedunionidae and robust viviparidae, which appear in numerous crops in Mehedin i, Dolj and GorjCounties. The lamellibranchiate species from R carii de Jos are replenishing the Romanianpalaeontology inventory and are offering new data about the evolution of the retreating Pliocene lake tothe east due to the Vlach orogenesis that carried forward with the ascend of the Carpathian Mountains. %K In the western Dacian Basin %K the Romanian age starts with a fauna comprised of carved unionidae and robust viviparidae %K which appear in numerous crops in Mehedin i %K Dolj and Gorj Counties. The lamellibranchiate species from R carii de Jos are replenishing the Romanian palaeontology inventory and are offering new data about the evolution of the retreating Pliocene lake to the east due to the Vlach orogenesis that carried forward with the ascend of the Carpathian Mountains. %U http://www.abah.bioflux.com.ro/docs/2010.2.27-34.pdf