Petreşti-Arini L4 (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Petresti-Arini, layer 4 (PT)

Where: Sebeş, Romania (47.4° N, 22.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 20.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Layer 4; close to the Campanian/Maastrichtian boundary

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; calcareous lithology not reported

• Paludo-fluvial (riverbank floodplain environment)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Brusatte & G. Dyke in 2007–2012

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Joint field trip involving many authors in primary source.

Primary reference: S. Brusatte, M. Vremir, A. Watanabe, Z. Csiki-Sava, D. Naish, G. J. Dyke, G. M. Erickson and M. A. Norell. 2013. An infant ornithopod dinosaur tibia from the Late Cretaceous of Sebes, Romania. Terra Sebus. Acta Musei Sabesiensis 5:627-644 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 156124: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.05.2014, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
? Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
dorsal rib
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Zalmoxes sp. Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
several associated specimens
 Testudines - Dortokidae
Dortokidae indet. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996 turtle
hyoplastra