Rapa Lancramului (RL) (reworked): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Kallokibotion sp. Nopcsa 1923
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Codrea et al. 2010
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae
Zalmoxes sp. Weishampel et al. 2003
1 specimen
distal caudal
Reptilia
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
    = cf. Magyarosaurus sp. Huene 1932
Brusatte et al. 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania State/province:Alba
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 23.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.4° North, 20.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sebeş
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: presumably reworked into Sebes Formation from older deposits
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",pebbly,intraclastic sandstone
Secondary lithology: silty claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "several generations of superposed channel fills, with reworked coarse lithoclasts, interbedded with silty clays of fluvial origin"; "cross-laminated sandy-pebbly"
Environment:coarse channel fill
Geology comments: shallow meaandring channel facies, overbank red claystone
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Sebes Valley, Rapa Lancram; Râpa Lancrămului
Database number:115001
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-08-27 00:56:44 Last modified:2022-03-28 10:16:17
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-27 00:56:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

81031. M. Vremir. 2010. New faunal elements from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) continental deposits of Sebeş area (Transylvania). Terra Sebus. Acta Musei Sabesiensis 2010(2):635-684 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

49557 S. Brusatte, M. Vremir, A. Watanabe, Z. Csiki-Sava, D. Naish, G. J. Dyke, G. M. Erickson and M. A. Norell. 2013. An infant ornithopod dinosaur tibia from the Late Cretaceous of Sebes, Romania. Terra Sebus. Acta Musei Sabesiensis 5:627-644 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
37235 V. Codrea, M. Vremir, C. Jipa, P. Godefroit, Z. Csiki, T. Smith, and C. Farcas. 2010. More than just Nopcsa's Transylvanian dinosaurs: A look outside the Hateg Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 293:391-405 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]