Dinosaur egg nests, mammals and other vertebrates from a new Maastrichtian site of the Haţeg Basin (Romania)

Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Landvertebrate Diversity in Alba District (Romania)

“…The same continued his survey also to other areas from Transylvania as in Alba and Sălaj counties where he found comparable Maastrichtian vertebrates (Nopcsa, 1905). Later, other studies underlined the remarkable abundance (Grigorescu, 1992;Grigorescu et al, 1999) and diversity of these assemblages (Codrea et al, 2002a;Smith et al, 2002).…”

Taphonomical and palaeoecological investigation of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tuştea vertebrate assemblage (Romania; Haţeg Basin) - insights into a unique dinosaur nesting locality

“…Despite several subsequent discoveries of dinosaur eggs and nests in different parts of the Transylvanian area (e.g., Codrea et al, 2002;Smith et al, 2002;Grigorescu and Csiki, 2008;Grigorescu et al, 2010;Grellet-Tinner et al, 2012;Barta et al, 2015;Fig. 1B), the first-to-be-identified Tuștea nesting site still remains unique in the Upper Cretaceous of Romania and even Europe in that a rich assemblage of macrovertebrate remains (both as isolated and associated skeletal elements), including Telmatosaurus hatchling bones, was discovered together with well-preserved egg clutches (e.g., Grigorescu et al, 1994Grigorescu et al, , 2010Grigorescu and Csiki, 2002;Martin et al, 2010;Venczel et al, 2015).…”

The first known chamopsiid lizard (Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe (Csehbánya Formation; Hungary, Bakony Mts)

“…Late Cretaceous terrestrial lizards have been found in various European localities since the 19 th century, the most important remains come from France Buffetaut et al, 1996;Buffetaut et al, 1997;Buffetaut et al, 1999;Tabuce et al, 2004;Buffetaut, 2005;Vullo and Néraudeau, 2008;Vullo et al, 2011), Romania (Grigorescu et al, 1999;Codrea et al, 2002;Venczel and Csiki, 2003;Folie and Codrea, 2005;Grigorescu, 2005;Csiki et al, 2008;Codrea et al, 2010aCodrea et al, , 2010bGrigorescu, 2010;Vasile and Csiki, 2010;Weishampel et al, 2010;Vasile and Csiki, 2011;Codrea et al, 2012;Jipa, 2012) and Spain (Rage, 1999;López-Martínez et al, 2000;Company, 2004;Blain et al, 2010;Narváez and Ortega, 2010;Houssaye et al, 2013).…”