Also known as Vălioara Budurone; Valioara; 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; concretionary, micaceous, pyritic, black, gray, blue, silty mudstone and coarse-grained sandstone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Collected by Grigorescu in 1996-1998
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 67818: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.12.2006, edited by Philip Mannion and Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cigulatisporites sp.1, Polypodiaceosporites sp.1, Interpollis sp.1, Nudopollis cf. terminalis1, Occulopollis sp.1, Interporopollenites cf. nagyae1, Interporopollenites sp.1, Interpollis supplingensis1, Labrapollis sp.1, Minorpollis sp.1, Nudopollis thiergartii1, Pseudovacuopollis sp.1, Triatrioporopollenites sp.1, Eustagnicola cretacea1, Ajkaia cf. gregari1, Rognacia abreviata1, Arionta precursor1
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Ginkgoopsida | |
Ephedripites jansonii1 Muller 1968 | |
Angiospermae | |
Triatriopollenites sp.1 Thomson and Pflug 1953 | |
Polypodiidites sp.1 Potonié 1966 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Inaperturopollenites dubius1 Thomson and Pflug 1953 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Leiotriletes sp.1 Potonie and Kremp 1954
Cyathidites sp.1 Couper 1953
Cyathidites australis1 Couper 1953 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Appendicisporites tricarinatus1, Appendicisporites sp.1, Cicatricosisporites sp.1, Cicatricosisporites dorogensis1
Appendicisporites sp.1 Weyland and Greifeld 1953
Cicatricosisporites sp.1 Potonie and Gelletich 1933
Cicatricosisporites dorogensis1 Potonie and Gelletich 1933 | |
Laevigatosporites ovatus1 Wilson and Webster 1946 | |
Gleicheniidites sp.1 Dettmann 1963 | |
Rouseisporites | |
Rouseisporites simplex1 Dettmann 1963 | |
Bryopsida | |
Stereisporites stereoides1 Pflug 1953 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
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Carpolithes | |
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Alisporites | |
Alisporites bilateralis1 Rouse 1959 | |
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Amphibia | |
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Paralatonia transylvanica n. gen. n. sp.1
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Reptilia | |
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"Euronychodon sp." = Paronychodon1
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Lingulata | |
Eoconulus sp.1 Cooper 1956 | |
Gastropoda | |
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Plicapollis | |
Plicapollis sp.1 Pflug 1953 | |
Trudopollis | |
Trudopollis sp.1 Pflug 1953 | |
Subtriporopollenites | |