Also known as Bărbat River; Barbat River

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.5° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 19.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Pui beds; customarily referred to the Sînpetru Formation, but it could represent a distinct stratigraphic unit, informally dubbed the ‘Bărbat Formation’ (see Csiki-Sava et al. 2016)

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•Most of the Pui localities are from the middle-upper part of the Bărbat River succession and are likely to be latest early to early late Maastrichtian (see Csiki-Sava et al. 2016)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; fine-grained, gray, blue mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Venczel and V. A. Codrea. 2019. A new Theriosuchus-like crocodyliform from the Maastrichtian of Romania. Cretaceous Research 100:24-38 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200484: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.04.2019

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