New Vălioara-Fântânele 2 (VF2): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Romania
collected by S. Vasile 2007–2008
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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| "paper-thin freshwater gastropod shell fragments" | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Alytidae
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Paralatonia sp.
Venczel and Csiki 2003
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| LPB(FGGUB) v.510 | ||||||||||
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= Paralatonia transylvanica
Venczel and Csiki 2003
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Venczel et al. 2016 | |||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Albanerpetontidae
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Albanerpetontidae indet.
Fox and Naylor 1982
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| dentary and trunk vertebral centrum FGGUB v.511, v.512 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Kogaionidae
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Kogaionidae indet.
Râdulescu and Samson 1996
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PM1, FGGUB M.1654 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Kallokibotion bajazidi
Nopcsa 1923
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodyliformes
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Crocodyliformes indet.
(Hay 1930)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| FGGUB v.506, V.509 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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cf. Doratodon sp.
Seeley 1881
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| FGGUB v.507, v.513 | ||||||||||
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? Doratodon sp.
Seeley 1881
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| FGGUB v.514 | ||||||||||
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cf. Acynodon sp.
Buscalioni et al. 1997
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| FGGUB v.515 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Titanosauridae
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Megaloolithidae indet.
Zhao 1979
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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cf. Euronychodon sp.
Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| synonym of Paronychodon | ||||||||||
| FGGUB R.2080 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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cf. Richardoestesia sp.
Currie et al. 1990
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| FGGUB R.2079 | ||||||||||
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? Velociraptorinae indet.
Barsbold 1983
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| FGGUB R.2081 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Romania | State/province: | Hunedoara |
| Coordinates: | 45.6° North, 22.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.7° North, 21.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Densuş-Ciula | Member: | Middle | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green silty mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "grey-greenish, massive, compact silty mudstones, locally slightly variegated" | |
| Environment: | wet floodplain |
| Geology comments: "poorly drained floodplain deposits" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),surface (in situ),sieve,field collection | ||
| Rock censused: | 60 kg | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | S. Vasile | Collection dates: | 2007–2008 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Valioara-Fantanele 2; Valiora | ||
| Database number: | 193942 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion, M. Carrano | Enterer: | P. Mannion, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-06-08 06:07:06 | Last modified: | 2022-03-08 15:36:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-06-08 06:07:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 80606. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 76067 | G. Botfalvai, Z. Csiki-Sava, L. Kocsis, G. Albert, J. Magyar, E. R. Bodor, D. Tabără, A. Ulyanov, and L. Makádi. 2021. ‘X’ marks the spot! Sedimentological, geochemical and palaeontological investigations of upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) vertebrate fossil localities from the Vălioara valley (Densuş-Ciula Formation, Hațeg basin, Romania). Cretaceous Research 104781 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano] | |
| 77788 | Z. Csiki, D. Grigorescu, V. Codrea and F. Therrien. 2010. Taphonomic modes in the Maastrichtian continental deposits of the Haţeg Basin, Romania—palaeoecological and palaeobiological inferences. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 293(3-4):375-390 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 80599 | E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 65862 | M. Venczel, J. D. Gardner, V. A. Codrea, Z. Csiki-Sava, S. Vasile and A. A. Solomon. 2016. New insights into Europe’s most diverse Late Cretaceous anuran assemblage from the Maastrichtian of western Romania. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 96(1):61-95 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |