Sub Târnov (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Sub Tarnov

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.5° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; gray, green, sandy mudstone

• "Preserved in poorly drained floodplain deposits"
• "gray-greenish sandy mudstones"

Size class: macrofossils

• "Weathering and abrasion low; association frequent, articulation present"

Collected by V. Doinel, C. Jianu in 1992

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. Grigorescu. 2005. Rediscovery of a “forgotten land”: the last three decades of research on the dinosaur-bearing deposits from the Haţeg Basin. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:191-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221784: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.08.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
 Ornithischia -
Telmatosaurus sp. Nopcsa 1903 ornithopod