Lancram B (LcB), Sebes Valley (1.55 m) (Cretaceous of Romania)

Where: Alba, Romania (46.0° N, 23.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 21.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sebeş Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• early Maastrichtian (see Csiki-Sava et al. 2016 and Ţabără et al. 2022)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; silty sandstone and coal

• "overflow-marshy deposits"
• "laminated silto-arenites, with interbedded thin coal films containing [fossils]"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2000

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Vremir and V. A. Codrea. 2002. The first Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) dinosaur footprints from Transylvania (Romania). Studia Universitatis Babes-Boyai, Geologia 47(2):93-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85496: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.01.2009, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"plant remnants"
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
  -
Iguanodonichnus sp. Casamiquela and Fasola 1968 dinosaur
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
? Zalmoxes sp. Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
 Ornithischia -
Telmatosaurus sp. Nopcsa 1903 ornithopod
UBB LcB 8
 Saurischia -
Magyarosaurus sp. Huene 1932 sauropod
UBB LcB 5, 18
 Loricata - Allodaposuchidae
Allodaposuchus sp. Nopcsa 1928 crocodilian
 Testudinata -
? Kallokibotion sp. Nopcsa 1923 turtle
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"freshwater snails"