Garjobel (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Gârjobel, Sânpetru, Girjobel

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.5° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sînpetru Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; massive, lenticular, green, argillaceous sandstone and green, argillaceous siltstone

• "poorly drained floodplain deposits"
• "greenish clayey sandstones" and "greenish clayey siltstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by V. Doinel, I. Groza, C. Jianu in 1983, 1992

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. B. Weishampel and C.-M. Jianu. 1996. New theropod dinosaur material from the Hateg Basin (Late Cretaceous, western Romania). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 200(3):387-404 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 10760: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
teeth
 Loricata - Allodaposuchidae
Allodaposuchus sp. Nopcsa 1928 crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
? Zalmoxes sp. Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
 Ornithischia -
Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Nopcsa 1900 ornithopod
femur, skull
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
teeth
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
cf. Saurornitholestes sp. Sues 1978 maniraptoran
MCDRD 254 and 454
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
fibula, L femur, R femur, L tibia, R tibia, caudal vertebrae