Brusturi Mine, Cornet 204 lens (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Bihor, ETE 1554

Where: Judetul Bihor, Romania (47.0° N, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 27.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Bauxite Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: karst; lenticular, brown, red, silty conglomerate and red, yellow claystone

• "an extensive karst surface, formed after uplift of the unlderlying limestones, providing clear evidence of subaerial erosion and tropical conditions of soil development. The bauxite occupied karst depressions to a depth of several metres, often filling caves and fissures."
• "[lens is] 3 m of red-brown boehmitic bauxite, consisting of alternating 300 mm thick beds of structureless mud-grade bauxite and 40-100 mm thick arenitic or arenitic/ruditic units...the bauxite is capped by 0.5 m of laminated kaolinitic clay of mottled yellow and red colour, and this is topped...by limestone. The bones occurred in greatest concentration in a 0.6 m thick band in the middle of the lens...virtually a bone-supported conglomerate...the bones were found in the mud-grade bauxites in the lower 1 m of the section."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by F. Marinescu in 1978-1979, 1994–2000

Collection methods: bulk, salvage, chemical, mechanical,

• 2000 bone-bearing blocks collected (size unspecified); discovered by two ore miners. Collected 1978-1979 by F. Marinescu; mine flooded 1984-1994; reopened 1994-2000 when studied by Tarii Crisurilor Museum and Univ. Bristol; re-flooded 2000. Specimens in the Muzeul Ţării Crişurilor, Oradea (MTCO).

Primary reference: T. Jurcsak and E. Popa. 1978. Resturi de dinozaurieni in bauxitele de la Cornet (Bihor). Nota preliminara [Dinosaurian remains in bauxite from Cornet (Bihor). Preliminary note]. Nymphaea 6:61-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13335: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.02.2002, edited by Philip Mannion and Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Charophyta indet.1 Migula 1890
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.1 Latreille 1802 ostracod
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.1 Cuvier 1795 snail
Reptilia
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet.3 Cope 1869 archosaur
MTCO 14.422/1503 (possible humerus) and MTCO 17932 (1912) (distal end of ulna or radius)
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.4 Owen 1842 dinosaur
MTCO 2091, ungual
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria indet.1 ankylosaur
dermal spine; MTCO 297/MTCO 1631
Iguanodon sp.5 Mantell 1825 ornithopod
MTCO 21362/7290+9124, 18.999, 21.104/CM, 21.093/CM, 14567, 14.749, 20.892/CM, 20.907/CM, 14.699/2100, 20.821/CM, 20.893/CM
"Iguanodon cf. mantelli" = Iguanodon anglicus7 Holl 1829 ornithopod
MTCO 17.679/3455, 17680/6086
Owenodon sp.4 Galton 2009 ornithopod
1902, 1908, 9903, 10220a
 Ornithischia - Dryosauridae
Dryosauridae indet.2 Milner and Norman 1984 ornithopod
 Ornithischia -
Bihariosaurus bauxiticus n. gen. n. sp.6
Bihariosaurus bauxiticus n. gen. n. sp.6 Marinescu 1989 ornithopod
 Ornithischia - Hypsilophodontidae
Hypsilophodon sp.7 Huxley 1870 hypsilophodontid
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
MTCO 706, MTCO 17245
Aves
 Ornithurae -
Hesperornithiformes indet.3 Fürbringer 1888 bird
MTCO 17637 (distal end of femur)
Reptilia
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet. carnosaur
"Carnosauridae"
 Pterosauria -
Pterodactyloidea indet.1 pterosaur
Up to 100 limb elements, including MTCO 1628, 9682, 1914
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
Azhdarchidae indet.3 pterosaur
MTCO 21.269 ⁄ Marinescu collection (incomplete cervical vertebra)
 Pterosauria - Dsungaripteridae
Dsungaripteridae indet.3 Young 1964 pterosaur
 Pterosauria -
? Dsungaripteroidea indet.8 pterosaur
MTCO 9651, snout; MTCO 18.262 ⁄ 9651 (partial maxilla)
Palaeocursornis biharicus n. gen. n. sp.1 Kessler and Jurcsák 1986 pterosaur
Eurolimnornis corneti n. gen. n. sp.1 Kessler and Jurcsák 1986 pterosaur
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Teleosauridae indet. Geoffroy 1831 marine crocodile