Pui (pterosaur) (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Bărbat River; Barbat River

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.5° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 19.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Customarily referred to the Sînpetru Formation, but it could represent a distinct stratigraphic unit, informally dubbed the ‘Bărbat Formation’ (see Csiki-Sava et al. 2016)

•Most of the Pui localities are from the middle-upper part of the Bărbat River succession and are likely to be latest early to early late Maastrichtian (see Csiki-Sava et al. 2016)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; silty sandstone

• shallow sandy channel fill deposit
• brownish-red and occassionally pebbly silty-sandstone layer

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2012

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: M. Vremir, M. Witton, D. Naish, G. Dyke, S. L. Brusatte, M. Norell, and R. Totoianu. 2015. A medium-sized robust-necked Azhdarchid pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchidae) from the Maastrichtian of Pui (Haţeg Basin, Transylvania, Romania). American Museum Novitates 3827:1-16 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167488: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 19.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
Azhdarchidae indet. pterosaur
R.2395 is a near-complete, midseries cervical vertebra preserved in a three-dimensional, almost uncrushed condition