PBDB Collection

Szentpéterfalva, Hateg Basin: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Romania
collected by I. Nopcsa & F. Nopcsa 1895-1899

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Nodosauridae

	? Crataeomus sp. Seeley 1881
	= Struthiosaurus transilvanicus n. sp. Nopcsa 1915	Nopcsa 1915
	original and current combination Struthiosaurus transylvanicus
Reptilia

	Limnosaurus transsylvanicus n. gen., n. sp. Nopcsa 1900	Nopcsa 1900	1 individual
	recombined as Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus
	BMNH B.3386
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae

	Rhabdodon priscum (Matheron 1869)	Nopcsa 1915
	recombined as Rhabdodon priscus

	Camptosaurus inkeyi n. sp. Nopcsa 1900	Nopcsa 1900	1 individual
	synonym of Zalmoxes robustus

	Mochlodon sp. Seeley 1881		3 individuals
	specimens A-C
	= Mochlodon suessi Bunzel 1871	Nopcsa 1902
	recombined as Rhabdodon suessi
Reptilia

	Paraves indet. Sereno 1997	Osi and Fozy 2007	1 specimen
	MAFI Ob. 1948
Reptilia - Troodontidae

	Troodontidae indet. Gilmore 1924	Csiki and Grigorescu 1998	5 specimens
	FGGUB R.1318, R.1319, R.1320, MAFI v.12685a, b (teeth)

	Bradycneme draculae n. gen., n. sp. Harrison and Walker 1975	Harrison and Walker 1975	1 specimen
	nomen dubium belonging to Troodontidae
	BMNH A 1588 (1 measurement)

	? Elopteryx nopcsai Andrews 1913	Andrews 1913	2 specimens
	tibiotarsus, BMNH A 4359, A 1528 (2 measurements)
	= Heptasteornis andrewsi n. gen., n. sp. Harrison and Walker 1975	Harrison and Walker 1975
	nomen dubium belonging to Troodontidae
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae

	Velociraptorinae indet. Barsbold 1983	Csiki and Grigorescu 1998	3 specimens
	FGGUB R.1271, R.1321, R.1322 (teeth)
Reptilia - Alvarezsauridae

	Elopteryx nopcsai n. gen., n. sp. Andrews 1913	Andrews 1913	1 specimen
	femur, BMNH A 1234 (1 measurement)
Reptilia

	Titanosaurus dacus Nopcsa 1915	Nopcsa 1915	2 specimens
	recombined as Magyarosaurus dacus
	NHMUK material; FGGUB R.1410, osteoderm

	Magyarosaurus transsylvanicus n. sp. Huene 1932	Huene 1932	2 specimens
	synonym of Magyarosaurus dacus
	BMNH R3896, R4891

	Magyarosaurus hungaricus n. sp. Huene 1932	Huene 1932	1 specimen
	synonym of Magyarosaurus dacus
	BMNH R3833

	Theriosuchus sympiestodon Martin et al. 2010	Martin et al. 2014	1 individual
	recombined as Sabresuchus sympiestodon
	MCDRD 793, maxilla with teeth
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae

	Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Reptilia - Testudines - Dortokidae

	Dortokidae indet. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Rabi et al. 2013
	new genus and species
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Kogaionidae

	Kogaionon ungureanui n. gen., n. sp. Radulescu and Samson 1996	Codrea et al. 2014
see common names

Geography

Country:	Romania	State/province:	Hunedoara
Coordinates:	45.6° North, 22.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	32.6° North, 21.1° East
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Altitude:	454 meters
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:	72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Sânpetru	Member:	lower
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: Ţabără and Slimani, 2019: The Sînpetru Formation was first assigned to the upper Maastrichtian on the basis of the presence of the pollen Pseudopapilopollis praesubhercynicus (see Antonescu et al., 1983). This assignment was later questioned by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2005), who suggested a lower/upper Maastrichtian boundary interval. Palaeomagnetic studies indicate that the Sînpetru Formation was laid down between the beginning of Chron 32n.1 and the end of Chron 31n (68.7–71.5 Ma) (Panaiotu and Panaiotu, 2010). The age of this formation is more difficult to establish due to its low content in palynomorphs and long-ranging taxa such as Deltoidospora minor, Gleicheniidites senonicus and Laevigatosporites ovatus. All taxa identified by us from the Sînpetru Formation were also previously recorded from the same deposits by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2005) and Csiki et al. (2008). Therefore, we agree the early/late Maastrichtian age of this formation, as suggested by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2005) on the basis of a more conclusive palynological content.

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	coarse sandstone
Environment:	fluvial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Associated major elements:	some
Disassociated major elements:	some
Fragmentation:	occasional

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection
Collection size:	300 specimens
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	BMNH
Collectors:	I. Nopcsa & F. Nopcsa	Collection dates:	1895-1899

Metadata

Also known as:	Sânpetru, Sînpetru, Sâmpetru, Sîmpetru, Sacel, La Carare, Sinpetru
Database number:	59410
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion, P. Holroyd	Enterer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion, J. Tennant, P. Holroyd
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2006-03-31 13:28:35	Last modified:	2023-12-04 13:27:33
Access level:	the public	Released:	2006-03-31 13:28:35
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

53030.

B. F. Nopcsa. 1897. Vorläufiger Bericht über das Auftreten von oberer Kreide im Hátszeger Thale in Siebenbürgen [Preliminary report on the occurrence of the Upper Cretaceous in the Hátszeg Valley in Transylvania]. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt, Wien 1897:273-274 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

34611	ETE	C. W. Andrews. 1913. On some bird remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Transslyvania. Geological Magazine, new series, decade 5 10(5):193-196 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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29483	ETE	F. v. Huene. 1932. Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development and history]. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, serie 1 4(1-2):1-361 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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51121		J. E. Martin, M. Rabi, Z. Csiki-Sava and S. Vasile. 2014. Cranial morphology of Theriosuchus sympiestodon (Mesoeucrocodylia, Atoposauridae) and the widespread occurrence in the Late Cretaceous of Europe. Journal of Paleontology 88(3):444-456 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]
32946	ETE	B. F. Nopcsa. 1900. Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen (Schädel von Limnosaurus transsylvanicus nov. gen. et spec.) [Dinosaur remains from Transylvania (skull of Limnosaurus transsylvanicus nov. gen. et spec.)]. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 68:555-591 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14097	ETE	B. F. Nopcsa. 1902. Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen II (Schädelreste von Mochlodon) mit einem anhange: Zur phylogenie der Ornithopodiden [Dinosaur remains from Transylvania II (skull remains of Mochlodon) with an appendix: the phylogeny of the ornithopods]. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 72:149-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14098	ETE	B. F. Nopcsa. 1904. Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen III (Weitere Schädelreste von Mochlodon) [Dinosaur remains from Transylvania III (further skull remains of Mochlodon)]. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 74:229-263 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32949	ETE	B. F. Nopcsa. 1914. Die Lebensbedingungen der obercretacischen Dinosaurier Siebenbürgens [The environment of Upper Cretaceous Transylvanian dinosaurs]. Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1914:564-574 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32943	ETE	B. F. Nopcsa. 1915. Die dinosaurier der Siebenbürgischen landesteile Ungarns [Dinosaurs of the Transylvanian regions of Hungary]. Mitteilungen aus den Jahrbuch der Königlich Ungarnischen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 23:1-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]
53031		B. F. Nopcsa. 1915. Erdélyi dinosaurusok [Transylvanian dinosaurs]. Földtani Közlöny 45:260-261 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
53032		B. F. Nopcsa. 1915. Die Siebenbürgischen Dinosaurier [Transylvanian dinosaurs]. Földtani Közlöny 45:320-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
51605		B. F. Nopcsa. 1929. Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen V. [Dinosaur remains from Siebenbürgen V]. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica 4:1-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
58953		B. F. v. Nopcsa. 1902. Ueber das Vorkommen der Dinosaurier bei Szentpéterfalva [On the presence of dinosaurs in Szentpéterfalva]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 54(1):34-39 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
26314		A. Osi and I. Fozy. 2007. A maniraptoran (Theropoda, Dinosauria) sacrum from the Upper Cretaceous of the Hateg Basin (Romania)—in search of the los pterosaurs of Baron Franz Nopcsa. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 246(2):173-181 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25690	ETE	X. Pereda Suberbiola and P. M. Galton. 1997. Armoured dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Transylvania. Sargetia, Acta Musei Devensis, Series Scientia Naturae 17:203-217 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13712	ETE	J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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79666		D. Ţabără and H. Slimani. 2022. Palynological and palynofacies analyses of Upper Cretaceous deposits in the Haţeg Basin, southern Carpathians, Romania. Cretaceous Research 104(104185) [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham]
42854		R. Tabuce, M. T. Antunes, R. Smith and T. Smith. 2006. Dental and tarsal morphology of the European Paleocene/Eocene “condylarth” mammal Microhyus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(1):37-52 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]