Also known as Valioara-Fantanele 2; Valiora

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.6° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 21.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Densuş-Ciula Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Close to the base of the Densuș-Ciula succession, in the basal part of the ‘middle member’, and are thus most probably of earliest to early Maastrichtian in age (Csiki-Sava et al., 2016). This age assessment is congruent with the 71.3+/-1.6 Ma K-Ar radiometric age reported by Bojar et al. (2011) from a tuff layer situated slightly to the west (Botfalvai et al. 2021)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; gray, green, silty mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by S. Vasile in 2007–2008

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: S. Vasile. 2008. A new microvertebrate site from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) deposits of the Hateg Basin. Sargetia, Acta Musei Devensis, Series Scientia Naturae 21:5-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 193942: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.06.2018, edited by Matthew Carrano

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