Lancram B (LcB), Sebes Valley (1.55 m): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Romania
collected 2000

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
1 specimen
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae
? Zalmoxes sp. Weishampel et al. 2003
Brusatte et al. 2013
Reptilia
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Codrea et al. 2010 1 specimen
UBB LcB 8
    = Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus Nopcsa 1900
Codrea et al. 2010
    = Telmatosaurus sp. Nopcsa 1903
Brusatte et al. 2013
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993
Codrea et al. 2010 2 specimens
UBB LcB 5, 18
    = Magyarosaurus sp. Huene 1932
Brusatte et al. 2013
Iguanodonichnus sp. Casamiquela and Fasola 1968
Brusatte et al. 2013
nomen dubium belonging to Dinosauria
Allodaposuchus sp. Nopcsa 1928
Brusatte et al. 2013
? Kallokibotion sp. Nopcsa 1923
Brusatte et al. 2013
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
"freshwater snails"
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"plant remnants"
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania State/province:Alba
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 23.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 21.7° 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:Sebeş
Local section:Lancram B Local bed:1.55 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: early Maastrichtian (see Csiki-Sava et al. 2016 and Ţabără et al. 2022)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination silty sandstone
Secondary lithology: coal
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "laminated silto-arenites, with interbedded thin coal films containing [fossils]"
Environment:mire/swamp
Geology comments: "overflow-marshy deposits"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:Oct 2000
Metadata
Database number:85496
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-01-02 11:05:06 Last modified:2022-03-28 10:13:56
Access level:the public Released:2009-01-02 11:05:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28886.ETE M. Vremir and V. A. Codrea. 2002. The first Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) dinosaur footprints from Transylvania (Romania). Studia Universitatis Babes-Boyai, Geologia 47(2):93-104 [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]
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]
80607 V. A. Codrea, O. Barbu, and C. Jipa-Murzea. 2010. Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) landvertebrate diversity in Alba District (Romania). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 43(2):594-601 [M. Carrano/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]
56054 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2014. An overview of the latest Cretaceous hadrosauroid record in Europe. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 268-297 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]