Oarda de Jos A (OdA) (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as ODA; Oarda A

Where: Alba, Romania (46.0° N, 23.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 21.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Şard Formation, lower–middle part

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lenticular, black, gray, silty, calcareous claystone and shelly/skeletal limestone

• floodplain with laterally extensive channels, with lacustrine environment predominating. Lens-like accumulation at this site.
• "gray-blackish silt clays and calcretes"; "coquina limestone" bed in same deposit contains eggshells

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115074: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.08.2011, edited by Jonathan Tennant, Terri Cleary and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Charophyta indet. Migula 1890
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Brachyura indet. Latreille 1802 crab
"crab chelipeds"
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithidae indet. Zhao 1979 titanosaurid
 Ornithischia -
Hadrosauroidea indet.5 Huene 1954 ornithopod
 Theropoda -
? Pseudogeckoolithus sp. Vianey-Liaud and López-Martínez 1997 maniraptoran
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
Albadraco tharmisensis n. gen. n. sp.6
Albadraco tharmisensis n. gen. n. sp.6 Solomon et al. 2020 pterosaur
PSMUBB V651 - holotype
 Loricata - Hylaeochampsidae
cf. Acynodon sp.1 Buscalioni et al. 1997 crocodilian
 Testudinata -
"Thalassodromeus sebesensis n. sp." = Kallokibotion bajazidi2
"Thalassodromeus sebesensis n. sp." = Kallokibotion bajazidi2 Nopcsa 1923 turtle
ODA 28
 Squamata -
 Squamata - Barbatteiidae
Oardasaurus glyphis n. gen. n. sp.4
Oardasaurus glyphis n. gen. n. sp.4 Codrea et al. 2017 squamates
PSMUBB.ODAN-A-12 (holotype), incomplete parietal
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Kogaionidae
Barbatodon oardaensis n. sp.3 Codrea et al. 2014 multituberculate
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton sp. Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod
 Salientia -
Anura indet.7 Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog
 Salientia - Alytidae
Paralatonia transylvanica7 Venczel and Csiki 2003 midwife toads
PSMUBB.ODAN-A-3, 5-8
 Salientia - Bombinatoridae
Hatzegobatrachus grigorescui7 Venczel and Csiki 2003 frog
PSMUBB.ODAN-A-9-11
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar
 Teleostei -