Crăguiş (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Craguis

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Densuş-Ciula Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; coarse-grained, pebbly, gray sandstone

• fluvial channel fill
• grey coarse pebbly sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Venczel, J. D. Gardner, V. A. Codrea, Z. Csiki-Sava, S. Vasile and A. A. Solomon. 2016. New insights into Europe’s most diverse Late Cretaceous anuran assemblage from the Maastrichtian of western Romania. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 96(1):61-95 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193944: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet.1 Huxley 1880 bony fish
LPB [FGGUB] v.812
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog
material reported by Zaharia (2011 [unpublished MSc thesis])
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton sp. Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod
LPB [FGGUB] v.806
Reptilia
 Squamata - Madtsoiidae
Nidophis insularis2 Vasile et al. 2013 snake
LPB [FGGUB] v.803
 Squamata - Paramacellodidae
? Becklesius nopcsai1 Folie and Codrea 2005 squamates
LPB [FGGUB] v.809
 Loricata - Hylaeochampsidae
Acynodon sp.1 Buscalioni et al. 1997 crocodilian
LPB [FGGUB] v.804
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet.1 Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
(LPB [FGGUB] R.2288
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
? Troodontidae indet.1 Gilmore 1924 maniraptoran
LPB [FGGUB] R.2286
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.1 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
LPB [FGGUB] R.2289
? Richardoestesia sp.1 Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
LPB [FGGUB] R.2287
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithidae indet.1 Zhao 1979 titanosaurid