Rich fauna in the Upper Cretaceous of Romania
Rich fauna in the Upper Cretaceous of Romania
An outcrop in southern Transylvania displays Upper Cretaceous transitional sediments from a marine to brackish environment with terrestrial elements. An international research group (including three members of the Institute of Paleobiology) conducted a comprehensive faunal study of this outcrop and identified 102 taxa of organisms, including nannoplankton, plant seeds and fruits, corals, bivalves, snails, ammonites, sea urchins, starfish, sharks, ray-finned fish, anurans, squamates, crocodiles, and putative dinosaur eggshells.
PUBLICATION: Trif, N., Pirnea, R., Čerňanský, A., Schwarzhans, W., Bălc, R., Jain, S., Kaim, A., Bakayeva, S., and Hryniewicz, K. 2025. A diverse Campanian biota from the Bozeș Formation (Petrești, Romania): Insights into the paleontology and paleoecology of a transitional sequence. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(2):a32. https://doi.org/10.26879/1536