Also known as Valioara-Fantanele; 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 classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1995–
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: D. Grigorescu, M. Venczel, Z. Csiki and R. Limberea. 1999. New latest Cretaceous microvertebrate fossil assemblages from the Haţeg Basin (Romania). Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:301-314 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 67817: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.12.2006, edited by Jonathan Tennant and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Mammalia | |
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Reptilia | |
Scincomorpha indet. squamates | |
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Kallokibotion bajazidi Nopcsa 1923 turtle | |
cf. Allodaposuchus precedens Nopcsa 1928 crocodilian | |
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Doratodon sp. Seeley 1881 crocodilian | |
"Rhabdodon robustus" = Zalmoxes robustus Nopcsa 1900 rhabdodontid | |
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Velociraptorinae indet. Barsbold 1983 maniraptoran | |
Aves | |
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Reptilia | |
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Magyarosaurus dacus Nopcsa 1915 sauropod | |
Amphibia | |
Celtedens sp. McGowan and Evans 1995 tetrapod
Albanerpeton sp. Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod | |
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Hatzegobatrachus grigorescui n. gen. n. sp.7
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Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Characeae indet. Agardh 1824 |