Also known as Bihor, ETE 1554
Where: Judetul Bihor, Romania (47.0° N, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 27.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Bauxite Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: karst; lenticular, brown, red, silty conglomerate and red, yellow claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by F. Marinescu in 1978-1979, 1994–2000
Collection methods: bulk, salvage, chemical, mechanical,
• 2000 bone-bearing blocks collected (size unspecified); discovered by two ore miners. Collected 1978-1979 by F. Marinescu; mine flooded 1984-1994; reopened 1994-2000 when studied by Tarii Crisurilor Museum and Univ. Bristol; re-flooded 2000. Specimens in the Muzeul Ţării Crişurilor, Oradea (MTCO).
Primary reference: T. Jurcsak and E. Popa. 1978. Resturi de dinozaurieni in bauxitele de la Cornet (Bihor). Nota preliminara [Dinosaurian remains in bauxite from Cornet (Bihor). Preliminary note]. Nymphaea 6:61-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13335: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.02.2002, edited by Philip Mannion and Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Archosauria indet.3 Cope 1869 archosaur MTCO 14.422/1503 (possible humerus) and MTCO 17932 (1912) (distal end of ulna or radius)
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Teleosauridae indet. Geoffroy 1831 marine crocodile | |
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Bihariosaurus bauxiticus n. gen. n. sp.6
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Iguanodon sp.5 Mantell 1825 ornithopod MTCO 21362/7290+9124, 18.999, 21.104/CM, 21.093/CM, 14567, 14.749, 20.892/CM, 20.907/CM, 14.699/2100, 20.821/CM, 20.893/CM
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? Dsungaripteroidea indet.8, Eurolimnornis corneti n. gen. n. sp.1, Palaeocursornis biharicus n. gen. n. sp.1
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Charophyta indet.1 Migula 1890 |