Also known as Bărbat River; Barbat River
Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.5° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 19.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sînpetru Formation, 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)
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•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: terrestrial; red, silty mudstone
•"red silty mudstones covered by calcrete horizon"
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca) & Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in 2001
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: Z. Csiki, D. Grigorescu, V. Codrea and F. Therrien. 2010. Taphonomic modes in the Maastrichtian continental deposits of the Haţeg Basin, Romania—palaeoecological and palaeobiological inferences. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 293(3-4):375-390 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 221769: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.08.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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