Also known as Valiora; Vălioara

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.6° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 21.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "The pterosaur remains found in 1978 were not part of a multi-taxon bone accumulation, but were found together in chocolate-coloured siltstones, unassociated with other bones, and undoubtedly belong to a single individual. The specimens come from the upper part of the middle member of the Densus-Ciula Formation"

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•Most probably of earliest to early Maastrichtian in age (Csiki-Sava et al., 2016). This age assessment is congruent with the 71.3+/-1.6 Ma K-Ar radiometric age reported by Bojar et al. (2011) from a tuff layer situated slightly to the west (Botfalvai et al. 2021)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; brown siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Grigorescu & Haita in 1978, 1988

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• FGGUB: Palaeontological Collection of the Faculty of Geology and Geophysics of the University of Bucharest

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, D. Grigorescu, and Z. Csiki. 2002. A new giant pterosaur with a robust skull from the latest Cretaceous of Romania. Naturwissenschaften 89:180-184 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89991: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 24.06.2009

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