Also known as Sânpetru, Sînpetru, Sâmpetru, Sîmpetru, Sacel, La Carare, Sinpetru
Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.6° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 21.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Sânpetru Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Ţabără and Slimani, 2019: The Sînpetru Formation was first assigned to the upper Maastrichtian on the basis of the presence of the pollen Pseudopapilopollis praesubhercynicus (see Antonescu et al., 1983). This assignment was later questioned by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2005), who suggested a lower/upper Maastrichtian boundary interval. Palaeomagnetic studies indicate that the Sînpetru Formation was laid down between the beginning of Chron 32n.1 and the end of Chron 31n (68.7–71.5 Ma) (Panaiotu and Panaiotu, 2010). The age of this formation is more difficult to establish due to its low content in palynomorphs and long-ranging taxa such as Deltoidospora minor, Gleicheniidites senonicus and Laevigatosporites ovatus. All taxa identified by us from the Sînpetru Formation were also previously recorded from the same deposits by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2005) and Csiki et al. (2008). Therefore, we agree the early/late Maastrichtian age of this formation, as suggested by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2005) on the basis of a more conclusive palynological content.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; coarse-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by I. Nopcsa & F. Nopcsa in 1895-1899; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: B. F. Nopcsa. 1897. Vorläufiger Bericht über das Auftreten von oberer Kreide im Hátszeger Thale in Siebenbürgen [Preliminary report on the occurrence of the Upper Cretaceous in the Hátszeg Valley in Transylvania]. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt, Wien 1897:273-274 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59410: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2006, edited by Jonathan Tennant, Patricia Holroyd and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Titanosaurus dacus" = Magyarosaurus dacus9, "Magyarosaurus hungaricus n. sp." = Magyarosaurus dacus5, "Magyarosaurus transsylvanicus n. sp." = Magyarosaurus dacus5
"Titanosaurus dacus" = Magyarosaurus dacus9 Nopcsa 1915 sauropod NHMUK material; FGGUB R.1410, osteoderm
"Magyarosaurus transsylvanicus n. sp." = Magyarosaurus dacus5 Nopcsa 1915 sauropod BMNH R3896, R4891
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"Struthiosaurus transilvanicus n. sp." = Struthiosaurus transylvanicus9
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"Camptosaurus inkeyi n. sp." = Zalmoxes robustus7, "Rhabdodon priscum" = Rhabdodon priscus9, "Mochlodon suessi" = Rhabdodon suessi8
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"Limnosaurus transsylvanicus n. gen. n. sp." = Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus7
"Limnosaurus transsylvanicus n. gen. n. sp." = Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus7 Nopcsa 1900 ornithopod BMNH B.3386
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Troodontidae indet.3 Gilmore 1924 maniraptoran FGGUB R.1318, R.1319, R.1320, MAFI v.12685a, b (teeth)
Heptasteornis andrewsi n. gen. n. sp.4 Harrison and Walker 1975 maniraptoran tibiotarsus, BMNH A 4359, A 1528
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Elopteryx nopcsai n. gen. n. sp.1
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"Theriosuchus sympiestodon" = Sabresuchus sympiestodon6
"Theriosuchus sympiestodon" = Sabresuchus sympiestodon6 Martin et al. 2010 crocodilian MCDRD 793, maxilla with teeth
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Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle | |
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Mammalia | |
Kogaionon ungureanui n. gen. n. sp.2
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