Dealul Cuptorului (DC): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Ankylosauria indet. (Osborn 1923)
    = ? Struthiosaurus sp. Bunzel 1870
Brusatte et al. 2013
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae
Zalmoxes sp. Weishampel et al. 2003
Brusatte et al. 2013 1 specimen
Fragmentary vertebrae
Reptilia
? Hadrosaurichnus sp. Alonso 1980
Brusatte et al. 2013
footprints
Reptilia - Testudines - Dortokidae
"Muehlbachia" sp. Vremir and Codrea 2009
Brusatte et al. 2013
    = Dortokidae indet. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996
Rabi et al. 2013
Dortokidae gen. et sp. nov.
Reptilia
Kallokibotion sp. Nopcsa 1923
Brusatte et al. 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 23.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.1° North, 21.6° 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:Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Şard
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower section of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:paleosol/pedogenic,red,blue claystone
Secondary lithology:tabular sandstone
Lithology description: "red or bluish-grey paleosols and sandstone sheet interbeds"
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: Fluvial, well-drained overbank facies and sandy-silty pointbar facies
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Dealul Cuptorului Cuptorului Hill
Database number:115004
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion, P. Holroyd Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Tennant, P. Holroyd
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-08-27 01:13:27 Last modified:2021-03-29 06:35:00
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-27 01:13:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

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]
76092 Z. Csiki-Sava, M. Vremir, S. Vasile, S. L. Brusatte, G. Dyke, D. Naish, M. A. Norell and R. Totoianu. 2016. The East Side Story – The Transylvanian latest Cretaceous continental vertebrate record and its implications for understanding Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary events. Cretaceous Research 57:662-698 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
59665 M. Rabi, M. Vremir, and H. Tong. 2013. Preliminary Overview of Late Cretaceous Turtle Diversity in Eastern Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, and Romania). In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, and J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 307-336 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]