Also known as La Groapă, Coasta Mereuta

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.5° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Ţabără and Slimani, 2019: The Sînpetru Formation was first assigned to the upper Maastrichtian on the basis of the presence of the pollen Pseudopapilopollis praesubhercynicus (see Antonescu et al., 1983). This assignment was later questioned by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2005), who suggested a lower/upper Maastrichtian boundary interval. Palaeomagnetic studies indicate that the Sînpetru Formation was laid down between the beginning of Chron 32n.1 and the end of Chron 31n (68.7–71.5 Ma) (Panaiotu and Panaiotu, 2010). The age of this formation is more difficult to establish due to its low content in palynomorphs and long-ranging taxa such as Deltoidospora minor, Gleicheniidites senonicus and Laevigatosporites ovatus. All taxa identified by us from the Sînpetru Formation were also previously recorded from the same deposits by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2005) and Csiki et al. (2008). Therefore, we agree the early/late Maastrichtian age of this formation, as suggested by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2005) on the basis of a more conclusive palynological content.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Weishampel, Grigorescu, Jianu, Brizio in 1997

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

Primary reference: C. Brizio. 1997. The Great Transylvanian Dinosaur Expedition 1997: una bellissima rosa con qualche spina di troppo [The Great Transylvanian Dinosaur Expedition 1997: a most beautiful rose with a few too many thorns]. Natura Nascosta 15:3-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 153889: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.01.2014, edited by Philip Mannion

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