La Scoabă: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Romania
collected by V. Doinel, I. Groza 1980, 2005
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Alytidae
|
||||||||||
Alytidae indet.
Fitzinger 1843
|
Venczel et al. 2016 | |||||||||
vertebrae, ilia and tibiofibulae | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Albanerpetontidae
|
||||||||||
Albanerpetontidae indet.
Fox and Naylor 1982
|
Venczel et al. 2016 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
dentary, angular + articular, and humerus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
|
||||||||||
Multituberculata indet.
(Cope 1884)
|
Csiki-Sava et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
|
||||||||||
Kallokibotion sp.
Nopcsa 1923
|
Csiki et al. 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
LPB [FGGUB] R.2033 | ||||||||||
= Kallokibotion bajazidi
Nopcsa 1923
|
Csiki-Sava et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Lacertilia indet.
(Owen 1842)
|
Csiki-Sava et al. 2016 | |||||||||
"two different lizard taxa" | ||||||||||
Acynodon sp.
Buscalioni et al. 1997
|
Csiki-Sava et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Rhabdodontidae
|
||||||||||
Zalmoxes sp.
Weishampel et al. 2003
|
1 individual | |||||||||
sacrum and coossified pelvis | ||||||||||
= ? Zalmoxes sp.
Weishampel et al. 2003
|
Csiki et al. 2010 | |||||||||
= Zalmoxes shqiperorum
Weishampel et al. 2003
|
Csiki-Sava et al. 2016 | |||||||||
UBB SPZ-2 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
|
||||||||||
? Telmatosaurus sp.
Nopcsa 1903
|
Csiki-Sava et al. 2016 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
LPB [FGGUB] R.2342 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Alvarezsauridae
|
||||||||||
Elopteryx nopcsai
Andrews 1913
|
7 specimens | |||||||||
FGGUB R.1957 distal right femur; BMNH A PAL. 1234 proximal left femur; BMNH A PAL. 1235 left femur; BMNH A PAL. 1528 distal left tibiotarsus; BMNH A PAL. 1588 distal right tibiotarsus; BMNH A PAL. 4358 distal left tibiotarsus; FGGUB R.351 distal left femur | ||||||||||
Reptilia
|
||||||||||
Euronychodon sp.
Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991
|
Csiki-Sava et al. 2016 | |||||||||
synonym of Paronychodon | ||||||||||
Titanosauria indet.
Bonaparte and Coria 1993
|
Csiki et al. 2010 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
LPB [FGGUB] R.1195, R.2425 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Romania | State/province: | Hunedoara |
Coordinates: | 45.5° North, 22.9° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.6° North, 21.1° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
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: | 70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Sînpetru | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of the lower (but not basalmost) Maastrichtian (Csiki-Sava et al. 2016)
"Several vertebrate remains were discovered at different stratigraphic levels during the recent years in the Scoaba locality....As FGGUB R.1957 was found as a loose element, at the base of the section, its exact provenance is unknown" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | red or brown cherty/siliceous mudstone | ||
Secondary lithology: | lithified sandstone | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Lithology description: "The Scoaba locality is situated in the lower part of the outcropping sequence, on the left bank of the Sibisel valley. It is represented by a 30 m thick rhythmic alternation of thick and laterally extensive sandstone bodies and pedogenetically modified, mainly reddish-brown siltic mudstones" | |||
Environment: | fluvial indet. | Tectonic setting: | intermontane basin |
Geology comments: "Sedimentological studies...suggest the deposits were laid down in a braided fluvial setting and represent floodplain and channel deposits, respectively" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | V. Doinel, I. Groza | Collection dates: | 1980a, 2005 |
Collection method comments: Laboratory of Paleontology of the University of Bucharest collection | |||
Taxonomic list comments:"Several vertebrate remains were discovered...including one almost complete Zalmoxes" |
Metadata
Also known as: | Scoaba; Sânpetru-Scoabă, Sibişel Valley | ||
Database number: | 97948 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Oreska, P. Mannion, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-09-09 11:34:42 | Last modified: | 2022-03-08 15:13:01 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-09-09 11:34:42 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
33860. | ETE | E. Kessler, D. Grigorescu, and Z. Csiki. 2005. Elopteryx revisited-A new bird-like specimen from the Maastrichtian of the Hateg Basin (Romania). Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:249-258 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska] |
Secondary references:
76966 | S. L. Brusatte, M. Dumbravă, M. Vremir, Z. Csiki-Sava, R. Totoianu and M. A. Norell. 2017. A catalog of Zalmoxes (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Nălaţ-Vad locality, Haţeg Basin, Romania. American Museum Novitates 3884:1-36 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
77788 | Z. Csiki, D. Grigorescu, V. Codrea and F. Therrien. 2010. Taphonomic modes in the Maastrichtian continental deposits of the Haţeg Basin, Romania—palaeoecological and palaeobiological inferences. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 293(3-4):375-390 [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] | |
78206 | D. Grigorescu. 2005. Rediscovery of a “forgotten land”: the last three decades of research on the dinosaur-bearing deposits from the Haţeg Basin. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5:191-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
80599 | E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
65862 | M. Venczel, J. D. Gardner, V. A. Codrea, Z. Csiki-Sava, S. Vasile and A. A. Solomon. 2016. New insights into Europe’s most diverse Late Cretaceous anuran assemblage from the Maastrichtian of western Romania. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 96(1):61-95 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |