Vrabchov dol (Cretaceous to of Bulgaria)

Also known as Bankya and Vrabcha, Tran

Where: Pernik, Bulgaria (42.8° N, 22.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 21.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rezhantsi Formation, Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 70.6 Ma)

• 2 fossiliferous layers

•Hristova 2020: The palynological study of three samples (from the two coal-bearing shale layers and layer 8) reveals the age of the locality as late Santonian to early Campanian age [6].

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray, calcareous claystone and coal

• Hristova 2020: The palynofacies data indicates deposition within lagoonal to foreshore marine palaeoenvironments.
• "limy clays of various shades of gray, silicified limy clays, and coal and coaly shales"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by A. Tzonkov, V. Nikolov et al. in 2006, 2017–2018

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: V. Nikolov, P. Pavlishina, M. Yaneva, D. Dochev, R. Konyovska and L. Hristova. 2018. Late Cretaceous dinosaur remains and other tetrapod fauna from the vicinity of Tran town (Western Srednogorie). Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society 79(3):99-100 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 199548: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.01.2019, edited by Grace Varnham and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
? Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.2 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
U. S. K21586
 Loricata -
Crocodylomorpha indet. Hay 1930 crocodilian
 Loricata - Allodaposuchidae
Allodaposuchidae indet.1 Narváez et al. 2015 crocodilian
NMNHS FR 27, NMNHS FR 28, NMNHS FR 29 (isolated teeth)
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
incl. partial hypoplastron
unclassified
  -
Gymnospermophyta indet. Cleal 1994
pollen
Pteridophyta indet. Haeckel 1875
pollen