Also known as Valiora; Vălioara
Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.6° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 21.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Densuş-Ciula Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Tier-2 faunal complex of the local vertebrate assemblage
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•Close to the base of the Densuș-Ciula succession, in the basal part of the ‘middle member’, and are thus most probably of earliest to early Maastrichtian in age (Csiki-Sava et al., 2016). This age assessment is congruent with the 71.3+/-1.6 Ma K-Ar radiometric age reported by Bojar et al. (2011) from a tuff layer situated slightly to the west (Botfalvai et al. 2021)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; coarse-grained, pebbly, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Dan Grigorescu in 1984
Primary reference: M. Vremir, G. Dyke, Z. Csiki-Sava, D. Grigorescu, and E. Buffetaut. 2018. Partial mandible of a giant pterosaur from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the Hațeg Basin, Romania. Lethaia 51(4):493-503 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 193773: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 05.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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