Oarda de Jos B (OdB) (Cretaceous of Romania)

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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; black, gray, silty, calcareous claystone

• floodplain with laterally extensive channels, with lacustrine environment predominating
• "gray-blackish silt clays and calcretes"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1999

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: M. Delfino, V. Codrea, A. Folie, P. Dica, P. Godefroit and T. Smith. 2008. A complete skull of Allodaposuchus precedens Nopcsa, 1928 (Eusuchia) and a reassessment of the morphology of the taxon based on the Romanian remains. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(1):111-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80859: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.05.2008, edited by Jonathan Tennant and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.1 Kaup 1834 pterosaur
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.2 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
Aves
 Alexornithiformes - Enantiornithidae
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.2 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
right tibia (UBB OdB-5)
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Zalmoxes sp.2 Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
isoltaed teeth, mostly fragmentary axial and appendicular elements, fragmentary ischium
 Ornithischia -
Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus2 Nopcsa 1900 ornithopod
 Loricata - Allodaposuchidae
Allodaposuchus precedens Nopcsa 1928 crocodilian
PSMUBB V 438
 Loricata -
Doratodon sp.1 Seeley 1881 crocodilian
 Testudines - Dortokidae
Muehlbachia nopcsai4 Vremir and Codrea 2009 turtle
 Testudinata -
Kallokibotion sp.2 Nopcsa 1923 turtle
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Kogaionidae
Barbatodon oardaensis3 Codrea et al. 2014 multituberculate