Dealul Cuptorului (DC) (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Dealul Cuptorului Cuptorului Hill

Where: Romania (46.0° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 21.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Şard Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Lower section of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; paleosol/pedogenic, red, blue claystone and tabular sandstone

• Fluvial, well-drained overbank facies and sandy-silty pointbar facies
• "red or bluish-grey paleosols and sandstone sheet interbeds"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: V. Codrea, M. Vremir, C. Jipa, P. Godefroit, Z. Csiki, T. Smith, and C. Farcas. 2010. More than just Nopcsa's Transylvanian dinosaurs: A look outside the Hateg Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 293:391-405 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 115004: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.08.2011, edited by Jonathan Tennant and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
? Struthiosaurus sp.1
? Struthiosaurus sp.1 Bunzel 1870 ankylosaur
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Zalmoxes sp.1
Zalmoxes sp.1 Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
Fragmentary vertebrae
 Theropoda -
? Hadrosaurichnus sp.1
? Hadrosaurichnus sp.1 Alonso 1980 theropod
footprints
 Testudinata -
Kallokibotion sp.1
Kallokibotion sp.1 Nopcsa 1923 turtle
 Testudines - Dortokidae
Dortokidae indet.2
1Brusatte et al. 2013; 2Rabi et al. 2013