Prislop Hill, Livezi (Cretaceous of Romania)

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.6° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Densuş-Ciula Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• slightly younger than the nests at Tustea; 2 layers with nests at site

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; paleosol/pedogenic, micaceous, brown, red, sandy, calcareous mudstone and conglomerate

• "calcrete-rich mudstones interbedded with up to 2 m thick matrix-supported conglomerates and rare dark grey mudstone intercalations...devoid of volcanoclasts." "Reddish-brown mica-rich sandy mudstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: D. Grigorescu and Z. Csiki. 2008. A new site with megaloolithid egg remains in the Maastrichtian of the Haţeg Basin. Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 6:115-121 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138826: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.01.2013, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
tibia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithidae indet.
Megaloolithidae indet. Zhao 1979 titanosaurid
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Kogaionidae
Kogaionidae indet.
Kogaionidae indet. Râdulescu and Samson 1996 multituberculate
LPB [FGGUB] M.1672