ammonites
Valioara-Fântânele 2 (VF2) (Cretaceous of Romania)

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.6° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 21.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Densus-Ciula Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, green, silty mudstone

• "grey-greenish, massive, compact silty mudstones, locally slightly variegated"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1997-1998

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: D. Grigorescu, M. Venczel, Z. Csiki and R. Limberea. 1999. New latest Cretaceous microvertebrate fossil assemblages from the Hateg Basin (Romania). Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:301-314 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67819: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 12.12.2006