Also known as Scoaba; Sânpetru-Scoabă, Sibişel Valley

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• lower part of the lower (but not basalmost) Maastrichtian (Csiki-Sava et al. 2016)

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•"Several vertebrate remains were discovered at different stratigraphic levels during the recent years in the Scoaba locality....As FGGUB R.1957 was found as a loose element, at the base of the section, its exact provenance is unknown"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; cherty/siliceous mudstone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V. Doinel, I. Groza in 1980a, 2005

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Laboratory of Paleontology of the University of Bucharest collection

Primary reference: E. Kessler, D. Grigorescu, and Z. Csiki. 2005. Elopteryx revisited-A new bird-like specimen from the Maastrichtian of the Hateg Basin (Romania). Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:249-258 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97948: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 09.09.2010, edited by Philip Mannion and Matthew Carrano

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