Rapa Lancramului (RL) (reworked) (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Sebes Valley, Rapa Lancram; Râpa Lancrămului

Where: Alba, Romania (46.0° N, 23.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 20.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sebeş Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• presumably reworked into Sebes Formation from older deposits

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; pebbly, intraclastic sandstone and silty claystone

• shallow meaandring channel facies, overbank red claystone
• "several generations of superposed channel fills, with reworked coarse lithoclasts, interbedded

•with silty clays of fluvial origin"; "cross-laminated sandy-pebbly"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: M. Vremir. 2010. New faunal elements from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) continental deposits of Sebeş area (Transylvania). Terra Sebus. Acta Musei Sabesiensis 2010(2):635-684 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 115001: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Kallokibotion sp. Nopcsa 1923 turtle
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.2 Owen 1842 dinosaur
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Zalmoxes sp. Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
distal caudal
 Saurischia -
cf. Magyarosaurus sp.1 Huene 1932 sauropod