Nălaţ-Vad (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Nalat-Vad; Nalatvad; Râul Mare River

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.6° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Râul Mare Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• lower to middle part of the upper Maastricthtian (Csiki-Sava et al. 2016)

•"Râul Mare beds", possibly upper section of ? Sînpetru Fm. or the Densus-Ciula Fm.

•"can be considered as slightly older than at Totesti-baraj"; at least 7 horizons with eggs at the site.

•also listed as early Maastrichtian Sînpetru Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; massive, paleosol/pedogenic, black, silty mudstone and shelly/skeletal limestone

• "fluvial palaeoenvironment with sandy channel infills and reddish brown overbank fines"; "Preserved in poorly drained floodplain deposits"
• black marl and coquina limestone with microvertebrate remains; "dark gray silty mudstones" and "massive, dark gray mudstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by V. Codrea in 2001–2002, 2007–2013

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 26369: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.10.2002, edited by Philip Mannion, Evangelos Vlachos and Samuel Brown

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet.8 Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Kogaionidae
Kogaionidae indet.4 Râdulescu and Samson 1996 multituberculate
Kogaionon radulescui n. sp.9 Smith et al. 2022 multituberculate
Barbatodon sp.8 Radulesco and Samson 1987 multituberculate
"n. sp."
Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Kallokibotion bajazidi7 Nopcsa 1923 turtle
UBB NVK-7 (partial anterior region of a carapace of a juvenile specimen); UBB NVK-31 (almost complete shell, lacking the most posterior regions of both the carapace and the plastron); LPB [FGGUB] R.2086
 Squamata -
Scincomorpha indet.8 squamates
possibly Scincidae
 Loricata -
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet.8 Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
tooth
Struthiosaurus sp.3 Bunzel 1870 ankylosaur
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodontia indet.8 ornithopod
similar to Mochlodon robustus
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
? Rhabdodontidae indet.1 Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
LPB (FGGUB) R.2408
Zalmoxes sp.1 Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
LPB (FGGUB) R.2409, LPB (FGGUB) R.2167, LPB (FGGUB) R.2331, LPB (FGGUB) R.2407
? Zalmoxes sp.1 Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
LPB (FGGUB) R.2167
Zalmoxes shqiperorum4 Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
LPB (FGGUB) R.2349, LPB (FGGUB) R.2592, LPB (FGGUB) R.2411, LPB (FGGUB) R.2403, LPB (FGGUB) R.2164, LPB (FGGUB) R.2410
 Ornithischia -
cf. Telmatosaurus sp.5 Nopcsa 1903 ornithopod
"? cf. Telmatosaurus" (LPB [FGGUB] R.2005, 2406)
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.8 Marsh 1881 theropod
 Theropoda - Alvarezsauridae
Elopteryx nopcsai4 Andrews 1913 coelurosaur
LPB [FGGUB] R.2399
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodontidae indet.3 Gilmore 1924 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Velociraptorinae indet.8 Barsbold 1983 maniraptoran
 Theropoda -
cf. Paronychodon sp.8 Cope 1876 maniraptoran
Aves
 Ornithurae - Gargantuaviidae
Gargantuaviidae indet.6 Buffetaut and Angst 2019 bird
UBB V649 (incomplete pelvis)
 Enantiornithes -
Euenantiornithes indet.10 Chiappe 2002 bird
NVEN 1 (complete right humerus), NVEN 2 (proximal end of left humerus)
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus cf. siruguei8 Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
 Saurischia -
cf. Paludititan sp.4 Csiki et al. 2010 sauropod
"? cf. Paludititan" (LPB [FGGUB] R.2344)
Paludititan nalatzensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Csiki et al. 2010 sauropod
UBB NVM1
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
? Hatzegopteryx sp.4 Buffetaut et al. 2002 pterosaur
LPB [FGGUB] R.2396