Râpa Rosie (RR), Sebes Valley (Cretaceous of Romania)

Also known as Râpa Roşie, Rapa Rosie

Where: Alba, Romania (46.0° N, 23.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 20.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• uppermost part of the Sebeş Formation

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, coarse-grained, red sandstone

• "red beds"; "weakly cemented detrital deposits, mainly coarse, as pebbles and sands of fluvial origin"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Nopcsa, M. Venczel in 2007

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. Grigorescu. 2004. Vertebrate paleontology in Romania. Noesis 29:97-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93729: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.01.2010, edited by Richard Butler and Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.1
Dinosauria indet.1 Owen 1842 dinosaur
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
? Struthiosaurus sp.1
? Struthiosaurus sp.1 Bunzel 1870 ankylosaur
 Ornithischia -
Telmatosaurus sp.3
Telmatosaurus sp.3 Nopcsa 1903 ornithopod
partial medio-proximal right femur
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Zalmoxes sp.1
Zalmoxes sp.1 Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
Various fragmentary limb bones, and vertebrae
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
 Saurischia -
? Magyarosaurus sp.1, "? Magyarosaurus hungaricus" = Magyarosaurus dacus3
? Magyarosaurus sp.1 Huene 1932 sauropod
small caudal vertebral centrum
"? Magyarosaurus hungaricus" = Magyarosaurus dacus3 Nopcsa 1915 sauropod
medio-posterior dorsal vertebra; "large size - RR specimen"
 Pterosauria -
Azhdarchoidea indet.1
Azhdarchoidea indet.1 Unwin 1992 pterosaur
"giant form A"; Cervical vertebra, syncarpal and scapulocoracoid
 Loricata - Allodaposuchidae
Allodaposuchus sp.1
Allodaposuchus sp.1 Nopcsa 1928 crocodilian
complete cervical osteodermal scute
 Loricata -
cf. Doratodon sp.3
cf. Doratodon sp.3 Seeley 1881 crocodilian
left lower-dentary fragment
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.1
Testudines indet.1 Batsch 1788 turtle
 Testudines - Dortokidae
Muehlbachia nopcsai3
Muehlbachia nopcsai3 Vremir and Codrea 2009 turtle
 Testudinata -
Kallokibotion bajazidi2
Kallokibotion bajazidi2 Nopcsa 1923 turtle
1Brusatte et al. 2013; 2Codrea et al. 2010; 3Vremir 2010