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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
"plant remnants"
Gastropoda
"freshwater snails"
Reptilia
Allodaposuchus sp. Nopcsa 1928
Brusatte et al. 2013
1 specimen
Brusatte et al. 2013
Codrea et al. 2010 2 specimens
UBB LcB 5, 18
Brusatte et al. 2013
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae
Brusatte et al. 2013
Reptilia
Codrea et al. 2010 1 specimen
UBB LcB 8
Codrea et al. 2010
Brusatte et al. 2013
Brusatte et al. 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania State/province:Alba
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 23.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.4° North, 29.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Early Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.2 - 66 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:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-01-02 11:05:06
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]