TY - JOUR AU - Botfalvai, Gábor AU - Csiki-Sava, Zoltán AU - Magyar, János AU - Páll-Gergely, Barna AU - Koczó, Levente AU - Ţabără, Daniel AU - Konecsni, Gergő AU - Budai, Soma TI - Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest highly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Haţeg Basin (western Romania; Densuş-Ciula Formation) JF - PLOS ONE J2 - PLOS ONE VL - 20 PY - 2025 IS - 11 SN - 1932-6203 DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0335893 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36441850 ID - 36441850 AB - Recent extensive fieldwork in the Densuş-Ciula Formation in Haţeg Basin has led to the discovery of several important high-diversity bonebeds. Among the excavated locations, site K2 is by far the most significant, as based on its stratigraphical position it is considered the oldest known (earliest Maastrichtian) highly diversified vertebrate site in the entire Haţeg Basin, and thus provides a good starting point for paleofaunistic, paleoecological and biostratigraphic comparisons with other similar sites across the Transylvanian area. During this study, detailed sedimentological, palynological, invertebrate- and vertebrate paleontological investigations were conducted to reconstruct the former paleoenvironment and the different depositional processes that allowed the formation of this productive bonebed. More than 800 vertebrate fossils were collected from an approximately 4.75 m 2 area of the bonebed horizon of site K2 representing at least 17 species including fish, amphibians, turtles, squamates, crocodyliforms, dinosaurs, pterosaurs and mammals, ranking this site among the most taxonomically diverse ones within the basin. The sedimentological investigation points towards a lacustrine depositional environment in which a high-diversity, multitaxic, multidominant mixed assemblage was accumulated on a flood-related delta due to a sudden drop in transport energy. Based on its stratigraphical position, site K2 represents the oldest vertebrate site within the Haţeg area and suggests a remarkable large-scale faunal stability on the Haţeg Island during the Maastrichtian. The dominant elements of the local fauna were already present in the earliest Maastrichtian, and no significant differences in faunal composition can be detected between this oldest and other, younger vertebrate assemblages of Haţeg Basin, at least at the level of higher taxa. Furthermore, just as the faunal composition, the dominance spectrum of the different taxa has not changed significantly among the Maastrichtian sites of Haţeg Basin. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Ebner, Aaron J. AU - Csiki-Sava, Zoltán AU - Treiber, Tim AU - Totoianu, Radu AU - Augustin, Felix J. TI - First hadrosauroid record from Petresti-Arini (Transylvanian Basin, Romania; Upper Cretaceous) and its implications for the evolution of the Hateg Island vertebrate faunas JF - PALAEOWORLD J2 - PALAEOWORLD VL - 34 PY - 2025 IS - 5 SN - 1871-174X DO - 10.1016/j.palwor.2025.200937 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36106723 ID - 36106723 N1 - Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72074, Germany Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 010041, Romania Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Palaeontology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1117, Hungary Ioan Raica Municipal Museum, Sebeş, 515800, Romania Export Date: 03 June 2025; Cited By: 0; Correspondence Address: A.J. Ebner; Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72074, Germany; email: aaebner@gmx.de LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Hoffmann, Simone AU - Krause, David W. TI - Postcranial osteology and locomotor habits of the North American Paleocene multituberculate Taeniolabis (Taeniolabidoidea, Mammalia) JF - PALAEOBIODIVERSITY AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTS J2 - PALAEOBIODIV PALAEOENV PY - 2025 PG - 23 SN - 1867-1594 DO - 10.1007/s12549-025-00671-4 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36654241 ID - 36654241 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Treiber, Tim AU - Csiki-Sava, Zoltán AU - Ebner, Aaron J. AU - Augustin, Felix J. TI - New report of Late Cretaceous struthiosaurids from the Haţeg Basin, with an overview of the Transylvanian ankylosaur fossil record JF - PALAEOBIODIVERSITY AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTS J2 - PALAEOBIODIV PALAEOENV VL - 105 PY - 2025 IS - 2 SP - 517 EP - 543 PG - 27 SN - 1867-1594 DO - 10.1007/s12549-025-00661-6 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36241208 ID - 36241208 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Bălc, R. AU - Bindiu-Haitonic, R. AU - Kövecsi, SA. AU - Vremir, M. AU - Ducea, M. AU - Csiki-Sava, Zoltán AU - Tabără, D. AU - Vasile, Ș. TI - Integrated biostratigraphy of Upper cretaceous deposits from an exceptional continental vertebrate-bearing marine section (Transylvanian Basin, Romania) provides new constraints on the advent of ‘dwarf dinosaur’ faunas in Eastern Europe JF - MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY J2 - MAR MICROPALEONTOL VL - 187 PY - 2024 SN - 0377-8398 DO - 10.1016/j.marmicro.2023.102328 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34493382 ID - 34493382 N1 - Funding Agency and Grant Number: Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI, through the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) [PN-III-P4-ID-PCE- 2020-2570]; Romanian MCID (Ministry of Research); [POCU/993/5/13]; [C1.2.PFE-CDI.2021-587]; [41PFE] Funding text: This study represents a contribution to the project PN-III-P4-ID-PCE- 2020-2570 funded by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI, through the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) . Szabolcs-Attila Kovecsi thanks the POCU/993/5/13, project "Development of advanced and applied research skills in STEAM + Health logic" for financial support. Mihai Nicolae Ducea acknowledges grant C1.2.PFE-CDI.2021-587/Contract no. 41PFE/30.12.2021 from the Romanian MCID (Ministry of Research) . For their important contribution to the extensive June 2017 sampling at the Petrerti section, sampling that represents the foundation for our study, we thank our colleagues Jingmai K. O'Connor, Alexandra J. Buczek, and, most importantly, Jocelyn Sessa and Mark A. Norell. Prof. Dr. Sorin Filipescu is thanked for his help in acquiring the scanning electron microscopy images of the foraminifera. We thank lecturer Eugen Wohl for reviewing the language and grammar of the manuscript. The Journal Associate Editor Shijun Jiang and the anonymous reviewers are kindly thanked for their comments and suggestions that helped improve the previous version of our manuscript considerably. 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