Zárecká Lhota, Chocen: Middle Turonian - Late/Upper Turonian, Czech Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Cretornis hlavaci n. gen., n. sp. Fritsch 1881
1 specimen
Prague Natural History Museum, 6 bones from left wing; MP Ob 10–0b 14, 0b 89–Ob 92, Ob 101–Ob 103, incomplete left wing including humerus, distal fragment of ulna, distal fragment of wing metacarpal, proximal fragment of first wing phalanx, and shaft fragment of second wing phalanx
see common names

Geography
Country:Czech Republic State/province:Pardubice County:Ústí nad Orlicí
Coordinates: 50.0° North, 16.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° North, 15.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Middle Turonian - Late/Upper Turonian
Age range of interval:93.50000 - 89.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jizera
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Iser Shales = Iserschichten = Jizera Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray calcareous marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "gray highly calcareous marlstones"
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Geology comments: "shallow shelf sea with an archipelago of palaeo-highs"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Ornithocheirus hlavatschi holotype, Chotzen
Database number:93874
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-02-05 08:52:15 Last modified:2022-03-10 10:09:16
Access level:the public Released:2010-02-05 08:52:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31915. A. Fritsch. 1881. Über die Entdeckung von Vogelresten in der böhm. Kreideformation. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 1880:275-276 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

55181 A. Averianov and B. Ekrt. 2015. Cretornis hlavaci Frič, 1881 from the Upper Cretaceous of Czech Republic (Pterosauria, Azhdarchoidea). Cretaceous Research 55:164-175 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Uhen]
34512 A. O. Averianov. 2010. The osteology of Azhdarcho lancicollis Nessov, 1984 (Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 314(3):264-317 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
64006 P. Brodkorb. 1978. Catalogue of fossil birds. Part 5 (Passeriformes). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 23(3):139-228 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56164 A. Fritsch. 1905. Neue Reptilien aus der böhmischen Kreideformation [New reptiles from the Bohemian Cretaceous formation]. In A. Fritsch & F. Bayer (ed.), Neue Fische und Reptilien aus der Böhmischen Kreideformation [New Fishes and Reptiles from the Bohemian Cretaceous Formation] 13-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32135 C.-M. Jianu, D. B. Weishampel, and E. Stiuca. 1997. Old and new pterosaur material from the Hateg Basin (Late Cretaceous) of western Romania, and comments about pterosaur diversity in the Late Cretaceous of Europe. 2nd European Workshop on Vertebrate Paleontology, Espéraza-Quillan, Abstracts. Musée des Dinosaures, Espéraza [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]
31917 P. Wellnhofer. 1978. Pterosauria, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1-82 [R. Butler/R. Butler]