Q. Oltet river valley, which was seen in the news recently, is located in which country?
Answer:
Romania
Notes: The Oltet river valley in Romania is a famous place for fossil deposits. Recently, a fossilised right arm bone has been found in the valley.
The fossil was studied using new scanning techniques and the results revealed that it was a new species of the Smutsia genus. It was named Smutsia olteniensis after the Oltet river valley. The species is said to have lived during the Pleistocene period about 1.9 and 2.2 million years ago.