Petrești-Black Lens: Late/Upper Campanian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Choi et al. 2020
unclassified
Osteichthyes indet. (Huxley 1880)
Amphibia
Amphibia indet. (Linnaeus 1758)
Reptilia
Lacertilia indet. (Owen 1842)
Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Choi et al. 2020
Pterosauria indet. (Kaup 1834)
Crocodyliformes indet. Hay 1930
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Multituberculata indet. (Cope 1884)
unclassified
Tracheophyta indet. ()
Choi et al. 2020
charred wood
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania State/province:Alba
Coordinates: 47.4° North, 22.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.7° North, 22.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sebeş
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular,black "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:wet floodplain
Geology comments: poorly drained coastal plain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Lagerst�tten type:concentrate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Petresti-Arini, Petreşti-Arini, MvBB
Database number:225892
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2022-06-07 12:38:27 Last modified:2022-06-07 12:40:04
Access level:the public Released:2022-06-07 12:38:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

81825. M. Vremir, S. Vasile, R. Totoioanu, G. Dyke, and Z. Csiki-Sava. 2015. Never say never – new additions to the composition of the oldest latest Cretaceous continental vertebrate assemblage in Transylvania, western Romania. In J. W. M. Jagt, G. Hebda, S. Mitrus, E. A. Jagt-Yazykova, A. Bodzioch, D. Konietzko-Meier, K. Karynal, K. Gruntmejer (eds.), 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists Opole, Poland, 8-12 July 2015 – Abstracts 73 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

81824 S. Choi, M. Moreno-Azanza, Z. Csiki-Sava, E. Prondvai, and Y.-N. Lee. 2020. Comparative crystallography suggests maniraptoran theropod affinities for latest Cretaceous European ‘geckoid’ eggshell. Papers in Palaeontology 6(2):265-292 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]