Also known as Valioara; Tuştea Oltoane; Tuştea nesting site; Vălioara; Valiora; Tustea, Ultoane

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

• Close to the base of the Densuș-Ciula succession, in the basal part of the ‘middle member’, and are thus 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: dry floodplain; paleosol/pedogenic, concretionary, micaceous, volcaniclastic, red, silty, calcareous claystone and burrowed, ferruginous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Seclaman, N. Ghinescu, D. Grigorescu in 1988–1989, 1997–2009

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical, peel or thin section, sieve,

Primary reference: D. Grigorescu, M. Seclamen, D. B. Norman and D. B. Weishampel. 1990. Dinosaur eggs from Romania. Nature 346:417 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13334: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.02.2002, edited by Kaitlin Maguire, Richard Butler, Philip Mannion, Jonathan Tennant and Patricia Holroyd

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