Secas-Fetilor Hill (SFH): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Romania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Muehlbachia nopcsai
Vremir and Codrea 2009
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| nomen nudum belonging to Dortokidae | |||||||
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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: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | Sebeş | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 65 m of section of lower-middle Sebeş | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples,medium,coarse conglomerate |
| Secondary lithology: | fine,brown,red calcareous mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "The section is dominated by coarse, mainly cross-bedded channel deposits (medium to coarse bar-conglomerates), with interbeds of fine grained red overbank deposits and occasional dark greenish-brown or bluish-gray, often calcareous ponded deposits (silty claystone, mudstone) and thin evaporites." | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Secaş-Feţilor Hill | ||
| Database number: | 224587 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-03-21 19:34:28 | Last modified: | 2023-08-02 09:42:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-03-21 19:34:28 |
| 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:
| 80942 | Y.-L. Yin, R. Pei, and C.-F. Zhou. 2018. Cranial morphology of Sinovenator changii (Theropoda: Troodontidae) on the new material from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. PeerJ 6:e4977:1-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |