Also known as Hateg Basin; Toteşti baraj, Totesti

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 (Sînpetru Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• assigned to Sânpetru Formation with reservation, due to differences in sedimentology. Age assignment accordingly subject to revision. at least 6 levels with dinosaur nests.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; paleosol/pedogenic, black, red, argillaceous claystone and sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by V. Codrea in 2001, 2010

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: V. Codrea, T. Smith, P. Dica, A. Folie, G. Garcia, P. Godefroit, and J. Van Itterbeeck. 2002. Dinosaur egg nests, mammals and other vertebrates from a new Maastrichtian site of the Hateg Basin (Romania). Comptes Rendus Palevol 1(3):173-180 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27894: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.01.2003, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Philip Mannion

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