Teleac (Cretaceous of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.9° N, 23.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 19.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• middle part of "Sebes" Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; sandstone

• cross-laminated and reddish grey sandstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Rabi, M. Vremir, and H. Tong. 2013. Preliminary Overview of Late Cretaceous Turtle Diversity in Eastern Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, and Romania). In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, and J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 307-336 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 181030: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 14.08.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Dortokidae
Dortokidae indet. turtle
new genus and species