Râpa Mocioconilor (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Rapa Mocioconilor

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.6° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; gray, green, silty mudstone and gray, yellow sandstone

• "Preserved in channel deposits"
• "gray-yellowish graywackes"; "gray-greenish silty mudstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V. Doinel, I. Groza in 1982

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. Grigorescu. 2005. Rediscovery of a “forgotten land”: the last three decades of research on the dinosaur-bearing deposits from the Haţeg Basin. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:191-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14454: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
vertebra
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
? Zalmoxes sp.
? Zalmoxes sp. Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
 Ornithischia -
? Telmatosaurus sp.
? Telmatosaurus sp. Nopcsa 1903 ornithopod