Biodiversity Literature Repository
Published November 23, 2022 | Version v1
Journal article Open

A new ornithopod dinosaur, <i>Transylvanosaurus platycephalus</i> gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Ornithischia), from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, Romania

Creators

Description

Augustin, Felix J., Bastiaans, Dylan, Dumbravă, Mihai D., Csiki-Sava, Zoltán (2022): A new ornithopod dinosaur, Transylvanosaurus platycephalus gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Ornithischia), from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, Romania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e2133610) 42 (2): 1-23, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2022.2133610, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2022.2133610

Files

source.pdf

Files (5.6 MB)

Name Size Download all
md5:a87f0271712e1cdf3923e19588a74cfa
5.6 MB Preview Download

Linked records

Additional details

Identifiers

LSID
urn:lsid:plazi.org:pub:A87F0271712EFFDF3923FF95FFA7FFFA
URL
http://publication.plazi.org/id/A87F0271712EFFDF3923FF95FFA7FFFA

Has part
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.7503739 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B96814A2-66B2-4F52-993C-A8C08F7D30FC (LSID)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/54467A09712AFFDB3A96F99FFABFF90C (URL)
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.7503741 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:98E276B0-6E97-460E-8848-A8381DFC3A90 (LSID)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/54467A09712AFFD13A69F880FE66FACA (URL)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7503792 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7503794 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7503796 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7503800 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7503804 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7503808 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7503810 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7503812 (DOI)
Is source of
Dataset: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/ed2af3fb-245e-4838-b7a3-2f21a8c6674a (URL)

References

  • Augustin, F. J., Dumbrava, M. D., Bastiaans, M. D., & Csiki-Sava, Z. (in press). Reappraisal of the braincase anatomy of the ornithopod dinosaurs Telmatosaurus and Zalmoxes from the Upper Cretaceous of the Hateg Basin (Romania) and the taxonomic reassessment of some previously referred specimens. PalZ.
  • Augustin, F. J., Matzke, A. T., Csiki-Sava, Z., & Pfretzschner, H.-U. (2019). Bioerosion on vertebrate remains from the Upper Cretaceous of the Hateg Basin, Romania and its taphonomic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 534, 109318.
  • Augustin, F. J., Csiki-Sava, Z., Matzke, A. T., Botfalvai, G., & Rabi, M. (2021). Anew latest Cretaceous pleurodiran turtle (Testudinata: Dortokidae) from the Hateg Basin (Romania) documents end-Cretaceous faunal provinciality and selective survival during the K-Pg extinction. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 19, 1059-1081.
  • Bell, P. R., Herne, M. C., Brougham, T., & Smith, E. T. (2018). Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia. PeerJ, 6, e6008.
  • Bell, P. R., Brougham, T., Herne, M. C., Frauenfelder, T., & Smith, E. T. (2019). Fostoria dhimbangunmal, gen. et sp. nov., a new iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the mid-Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39, e1564757.
  • Benton, M. J., Csiki, Z., Grigorescu, D., Redelstorff, R., Sander, P. M., Stein, K., & Weishampel, D. B. (2010). Dinosaurs and the island rule: the dwarfed dinosaurs from Hateg Island. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 293, 438-454.
  • Blanco, A. (2021). Importance of the postcranial skeleton in eusuchian phylogeny: Reassessing the systematics of allodaposuchid crocodylians. PLoS ONE, 16, e0251900.
  • Blanco, A., & Brochu, C. A. (2017). Intra- and interspecific variability in allodaposuchid crocodylomorphs and the status of western European taxa. Historical Biology, 29, 495-508.
  • Bojar, A.-V., Grigorescu, D., Ottner, F., & Csiki, Z. (2005). Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of dinosaur- and mammalbearing continental Maastrichtian deposits, Hateg Basin, Romania. Geological Quarterly, 49, 205-222.
  • Bojar, A.-V., Halas, S., Bojar, H.-P., Grigorescu, D., & Vasile, S2011). Upper Cretaceous volcanoclastic deposits from the Hateg Basin, south Carpathians (Romania): K-Ar ages and intrabasinal correlation. Geochronometria, 38, 182-188.
  • Botfalvai, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Grigorescu, D., & Vasile, S. (2017). Taphonomical and palaeoecological investigation of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tustea vertebrate assemblage (Romania: Hateg Basin) - insights into a unique dinosaur nesting locality. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 468, 228-262.
  • Boyd, C. A. (2015). The systematic relationships and biogeographic history of ornithischian dinosaurs. PeerJ, 3, e1523.
  • Brown, C. M., Evans, D. C., Ryan, M. J., & Russell, A. P. (2013). New data on the diversity and abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, 495-520.
  • Buffetaut, E., & Le Loeuff, J. (1991). Une nouvelle espece de Rhabdodon (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) du Cretace superieur de l' Herault (Sud de la France). Comptes Rendus de l' Academie Des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science, 312, 943-948.
  • Buffetaut, E., Grigorescu, D., & Csiki, Z. (2002). Anew giant pterosaur with a robust skull from the latest Cretaceous of Romania. Naturwissenschaften, 89, 180-184.
  • Buffetaut, E., Costa, G., Le Loeuff, J., Martin, M., Rage, J.-C., Valentin, X., & Tong, H. (1996). An Early Campanian vertebrate fauna from the Villeveyrac Basin (Herault, Southern France). Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie Monatshefte, 1, 1-16.
  • Buffetaut, E., Le Loeuff, J., Tong, H., Duffaud, S., Cavin, L., Garcia, G., & Ward, D. (1999). Un nouveau gisement de vertebres du cretace superieur a cruzy (herault, sud de la France). Comptes Rendus de l' Academie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science, 328, 203-208.
  • Bunzel, E. (1871). Die Reptilfauna der Gosau-Formation in der Neuen Welt bei Wiener-Neustadt. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich Koniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt, 5, 1-18.
  • Butler, R. J., Upchurch, P., & Norman, D. B. (2008). The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 6, 1- 40.
  • Chanthasit, P. (2010). The ornithopod dinosaur Rhabdodon from the Late Cretaceous of France: anatomy, systematics and paleobiology [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon.
  • Codrea, V. A., & Solomon, A. (2012). Peculiar fossilization and taphonomy in Maastrichtian terrestrial deposits of Pui (Hateg Basin, Romania). Studii Si Cercetari Geology-Geography, 17, 51-69.
  • Codrea, V. A., Smith, T., Dica, P., Folie, A., Garcia, G., Godefroit, P., & Van Itterbeeck, J. (2002). Dinosaur egg nests, mammals and other vertebrates from anew Maastrichtian site of the Hateg Basin (Romania). Comptes Rendus Palevol, 1, 173-180.
  • Csiki, Z. (2006). Insect borings in dinosaur bones from the Maastrichtian of the Hateg Basin, Romania: paleoecological and paleoclimatic implications. In Z. Csiki (Ed.), Mesozoic and Cenozoic vertebrates and paleoenvironments. Tributes to the career of Dan Grigorescu (pp. 95-104). Ars Docendi, Bucharest.
  • Csiki, Z., Grigorescu, D., & Rucklin, M. (2005). Anew multituberculate specimen from the Maastrichtian of Pui, Romania and reassessment of affinities of Barbatodon Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, 5, 73-86.
  • Csiki, Z., Codrea, V., Jipa-Murzea, C., & Godefroit, P. (2010b). A partial titanosaur (Sauropoda, Dinosauria) skeleton from the Maastrichtian of Nalat-Vad, Hateg Basin, Romania. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen, 258, 297-324.
  • Csiki, Z., Grigorescu, D., Codrea, V. A., & Therrien, F. (2010c). Taphonomic modes in the Maastrichtian continental deposits of the Hateg Basin, Romania - palaeoecological and palaeobiological inferences. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 293, 375-390.
  • Csiki, Z., Vremir, M., Brusatte, S. L., & Norell, M. A. (2010a). An aberrant island-dwelling theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 15357-15361.
  • Csiki-Sava, Z., Buffetaut, E., Osi, A., Pereda-Suberbiola, X., & Brusatte, S. L. (2015). Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago. ZooKeys, 469, 1-161.
  • Csiki-Sava, Z., Vremir, M., Meng, J., Brusatte, S. L., & Norell, M. A. (2018). Dome-headed, small-brained island mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 4857-4862.
  • Csiki-Sava, Z., Vremir, M., Vasile, S., Brusatte, S. L., Dyke, G., Naish, D., Norell, M. A., & Totoianu, R. (2016). The east side story - the Transylvanian latest Cretaceous continental vertebrate record and its implications for understanding Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary events. Cretaceous Research, 57, 662-698.
  • Dieudonne, P. E., Baldor, F. T.-F., & Huerta-Hurtado, P. (2020). Unrelated ornithopods with similar tooth morphology in the vicinity of Salas de los Infantes (Burgos Province, Spain): an intriguing case-study. Journal of Iberian Geology, 46, 403-417.
  • Dieudonne, P.-E., Cruzado-Caballero, P., Godefroit, P., & Tortosa, T. (2021). Anew phylogeny of cerapodan dinosaurs. Historical Biology, 33, 2335-2355.
  • Dieudonne, P.-E., Tortosa, T., Torcida Fernandez-Baldor, F., Canudo, J. I., & Diaz-Martinez, I. (2016). An unexpected early rhabdodontid from Europe (Lower Cretaceous of Salas de los Infantes, Burgos Province, Spain) and a re-examination of basal iguanodontian relationships. PLoS ONE, 11, e0156251.
  • Dumbrava, M. D., Acheson, K. A., & Csiki-Sava, Z. (2017). To put a face to a name: an investigation of the Nopcsa collection. Zitteliana, 91, 32-33.
  • Folie, A., & Codrea, V. A. (2005). New lissamphibians and squamates from the Maastrichtian of Hateg Basin, Romania. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 50, 57-71.
  • Gheerbrant, E., & Teodori, D. (2021). An enigmatic specialized new eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Western Europe (Northern Pyrenees). Comptes Rendus Palevol, 20, 207-223.
  • Godefroit, P., Codrea, V., & Weishampel, D B. (2009). Osteology of Zalmoxes shqiperorum (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda), based on new specimens from the Upper Cretaceous of Nalat-Vad (Romania). Geodiversitas, 31, 525-553.
  • Godefroit, P., Garcia, G., Gomez, B., Stein, K., Cincotta, A., Lefevre, U., & Valentin, X. (2017). Extreme tooth enlargement in a new Late Cretaceous rhabdodontid dinosaur from Southern France. Scientific Reports, 7, 13098.
  • Goloboff, P. A., & Catalano, S. A. (2016). TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics. Cladistics, 32, 221-238.
  • Grigorescu, D. 1983 A stratigraphic, taphonomic and paleoecologic approach to a "forgotten land": the dinosaur-bearing deposits from the Hateg Basin (Transylvania-Romania). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 28, 103-121.
  • Grigorescu, D. (1992). Nonmarine Cretaceous formations of Romania. In N. Mateer & C. Pen-Ji (Eds.), Aspects of Nonmarine Cretaceous Geology (pp. 142-164). China Ocean Press, Beijing.
  • Grigorescu, D., Venczel, M., Csiki, Z., & Limberea, R. (1999). New latest Cretaceous microvertebrate fossil assemblages from the Hateg Basin (Romania). Geologie En Mijnbouw, 78, 301-314.
  • Grigorescu, D., Hartenberger, J.-L., Radulescu, C., Samson, P.-M., & Sudre, J. (1985). Decouverte de mammiferes et de dinosaures dans le Cretace superieur de Pui (Roumanie). Comptes Rendus de l' Academie Des Sciences de Paris, 301, 1365-1368.
  • Herne, M. C., Nair, J. P., Evans, A. R., & Tait, A. M. (2019). New smallbodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Neornithischia) from the Early Cretaceous Wonthaggi Formation (Strzelecki Group) of the Australian-Antarctic rift system, with revision of Qantassaurus intrepidus Rich and Vickers-Rich, 1999. Journal of Paleontology, 93, 543-584.
  • Holliday, C. M. (2009). New insights into dinosaur jaw muscle anatomy. The Anatomical Record, 292, 1246-1265.
  • Holliday, C. M., & Witmer, L. M. (2008). Cranial kinesis in dinosaurs: intracranial joints, protractor muscles, and their significance for cranial evolution and function in diapsids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28, 1073-1088.
  • Hubner, T. R., & Rauhut, O. W. M. (2010). Ajuvenile skull of Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia), and implications for cranial ontogeny, phylogeny, and taxonomy in ornithopod dinosaurs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 160, 366-396.
  • Huene, F. von. (1932). Die fossile Reptilordnung Saurischia: ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaontologie, 1, 1-361.
  • Jianu, C.-M., & Weishampel, D. B. (1997). Anew theropod dinosaur from the Hateg Basin, western Romania, in the Hungarian Geological Survey Collection. Sargetia, 17, 239-246.
  • Madzia, D., Boyd, C. A., & Mazuch, M. (2018). Abasal ornithopod dinosaur from the Cenomanian of the Czech Republic. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16, 967-979.
  • Madzia, D., Arbour, V. M., Boyd, C. A., Farke, A. A., Cruzado-Caballero, P., & Evans, D. C. (2021). The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs. PeerJ, 9, e12362.
  • Mallison, H., & Wings, O. (2014). Photogrammetry in paleontology - a practical guide. Journal of Paleontological Techniques, 12, 1-31.
  • Mamulea, M. A. (1953). Studii geologice in regiunea Sanpetru-Pui (Bazinul Hategului). Anuarul Comittului Geological Romaniei, 25, 211-274.
  • Marsh, O. C. (1881). Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part IV. Spinal cord, pelvis and limbs of Stegosaurus. American Journal of Science, 21, 167-170.
  • Martin, J. E., Rabi, M., & Csiki, Z. (2010). Survival of Theriosuchus (Mesoeucrocodylia: Atoposauridae) in a Late Cretaceous archipelago: anew species from the Maastrichtian of Romania. Naturwissenschaften, 97, 845-854.
  • Martin, J. E., Csiki, Z., Grigorescu, D., & Buffetaut, E. (2006). Late Cretaceous crocodilian diversity in Hateg Basin, Romania. Hantkeniana, 5, 31-37.
  • Matheron, P. (1869). Notice sur les reptiles fossiles des depots fluviolacustres cretaces du bassin a lignite de Fuveau. Memoires de l' Academie Imperiale Des Sciences, Belles- Lettres et Arts de Marseille, 1-39.
  • McDonald, A. T. (2012). Phylogeny of basal iguanodonts (Dinosauria: Ornithischia): an update. PLoS ONE, 7, e36745.
  • McDonald, A. T., Kirkland, J. I., DeBlieux, D. D., Madsen, S. K., Cavin, J., Milner, A. R. C., & Panzarin, L. (2010). New basal iguanodonts from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah and the evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs. PLoS ONE, 5, e14075.
  • Narvaez, I., Brochu, C. A., Escaso, F., Perez-Garcia, A., & Ortega, F. (2016). New Spanish Late Cretaceous eusuchian reveals the synchronic and sympatric presence of two allodaposuchids. Cretaceous Research, 65, 112-125.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1897). Vorlaufiger Bericht uber das Auftreten von oberer Kreide im Hatszeger Thale in Siebenburgen. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 273-274.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1900). Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenburgen I: Schadel von Limnosaurus transylvanicus nov. gen et sp. Denkschriften der koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 68, 555-591.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1902a). Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenburgen II. Schadelreste von Mochlodon. Mit einem Anhange: zur Phylogenie der Ornithopodiden. Denkschriften der koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 72, 149-175.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1902b). Uber das Vorkommen der Dinosaurier bei Szentpeterfalva. Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, 54, 34-39.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1904). Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenburgen III. Weitere Schadelreste von Mochlodon. Denkschriften der koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 74, 229-263.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1905). Zur Geologie der Gegend zwischen Gyulafehervar, Deva, Ruszkabanya und der Rumanischen Landesgrenze. Mitteilungen aus dem Jahrbuche der koniglich ungarischen geologischen Reichsanstalt, Budapest, 14, 93-279.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1915). Die Dinosaurier der siebenburgischen Landesteile Ungarns. Mitteilungen aus dem Jahrbuche der koniglich ungarischen geologischen Reichsanstalt, Budapest, 23, 3-24.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1923a). On the geological importance of the primitive reptilian fauna in the Uppermost Cretaceous of Hungary; with a description of a new tortoise (Kallokibotion). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 79, 100-116.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1923b). Kallokibotion, a primitive amphichelydean tortoise from the Upper Cretaceous of Hungary. Palaeontologica Hungarica, 1, 1-34.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1928). Paleontological notes on Reptilia 7. Classification of the Crocodilia. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica, 1, 75-84.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1929a). Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenburgen V. Struthiosaurus transsylvanicus. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica, 4, 1-76.
  • Nopcsa, F. (1929b). Sexual differences in ornithopodous dinosaurs. Palaeobiologica, 2, 188-201.
  • Osi, A., Prondvai, E., Butler, R. J., & Weishampel, D. B. (2012). Phylogeny, histology and inferred body size evolution in a new rhabdodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary. PLoS ONE, 7, 1-44.
  • Owen, R. (1842). Report on British fossil reptiles. Part II. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 11, 60-204.
  • Panaiotu, A. G., Ciobanete, D., Panaiotu, C. G., & Panaiotu, C. E. (2011). New palaeomagnetic data from the Hateg Basin, Romania. Abstract Volume, Romanian Symposium on Palaeontology, 8, 84-85.
  • Panaiotu, C. G., & Panaiotu, C. E. (2010). Palaeomagnetism of the Upper Cretaceous Sanpetru Formation (Hateg Basin, South Carpathians). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 293, 343-352.
  • Parraga, J., & Prieto-Marquez, A. (2019). Pareisactus evrostos, anew basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southwestern Europe. Zootaxa, 4555, 247-258.
  • Pereda-Suberbiola, X., & Sanz, J. L. (1999). The ornithopod dinosaur Rhabdodon from the Upper Cretaceous of Lano (Iberian Peninsula). Estudios Del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava, 14, 257-272.
  • Pincemaille-Quillevere, M., Buffetaut, E., & Quillevere, F. (2006). Osteological description of the braincase of Rhabdodon (Dinosauria, Euornithopoda) and phylogenetic implications. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France, 177, 97-104.
  • Rabi, M., Vremir, M., & Tong, H. (2013). Preliminary overview of Late Cretaceous turtle diversity in eastern central Europe (Austria, Hungary, and Romania). In D. B. Brinkmann, P. A. Holroyd, & J. D. Gardner (Eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (pp. 307-336). Springer, Dordrecht.
  • Radulescu, C., & Samson, P.-M. (1986). Precisions sur les affinites des Multitubercules (Mammalia) du Cretace Superieur de Roumaine. Comptes Rendus Academie Des Sciences de Paris II, 304, 1825-1830.
  • Radulescu, C., & Samson, P.-M. (1996). The first multituberculate skull from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Europe (Hateg Basin, Romania). Anuarul Institutului Geological Romaniei, 69, 177-178.
  • Seeley, H. G. (1881). The reptile fauna of the Gosau Formation preserved in the Geological Museum of the University of Vienna: with a note on the geological horizon of the fossils at Neue Welt, west of Wiener Neustadt. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society London, 37, 620-707.
  • Seeley, H. G. (1888). The classification of the Dinosauria. Report British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1887, 698-699.
  • Sereno, P. C. (1986). Phylogeny of the bird-hipped dinosaurs. National Geographic Research, 2, 234-256.
  • Smith, T., & Codrea, V. A. (2015). Red iron-pigmented tooth enamel in a multituberculate mammal from the Late Cretaceous Transylvanian "Hateg Island." PLoS ONE, 10, e0132550.
  • Smith, T., Codrea, V. A., Sasaran, E., Van Itterbeeck, J., Bultynck, P., Csiki, Z., Dica, P., Farcas, C., Folie, A., Garcia, G., & Godefroit, P. (2002). Anew exceptional vertebrate site from the Late Cretaceous of the Hateg Basin (Romania). Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia, Special Issue, 1, 321-330.
  • Solomon, A., Codrea, V. A., Venczel, M., Dumbrava, M., & Smith, T. (2016). New remains of the multituberculate mammal Barbatodon from the Upper Cretaceous of the Hateg Basin (Romania). Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 23, 319-335.
  • Therrien, F. (2005). Palaeoenvironments of the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) dinosaurs of Romania: insights from fluvial deposits and paleosols of the Transylvanian and Hateg basins. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 218, 15-56.
  • Therrien, F. (2006). Depositional environments and fluvial system changes in the dinosaur-bearing Sanpetru Formation (Late Cretaceous, Romania): post-orogenic sedimentation in an active extensional basin. Sedimentary Geology, 192, 183-205.
  • Therrien, F., Zelenitsky, D. K., & Weishampel, D. B. (2009). Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous Sanpetru Formation (Hateg Basin, Romania) using paleosols and implications for the "disappearance" of dinosaurs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 272, 37-52.
  • Van Itterbeeck, J., Markevich, V. S., & Codrea, V. A. (2005). Palynostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian dinosaur- and mammal sites of the Raul Mare and Barbat Valleys (Hateg Basin, Romania). Geologica Carpathica, 56, 137-147.
  • Van Itterbeeck, J., Sasaran, E., Codrea, V. A., Sasaran, L., & Bultynck, P. (2004). Sedimentology of the Upper Cretaceous mammal- and dinosaur-bearing sites along the Raul Mare and Barbat rivers, Hateg Basin, Romania. Cretaceous Research, 25, 517-530.
  • Vasile, S., & Csiki, Z. (2010). Comparative paleoecological analysis of some microvertebrate fossil assemblages from the Hateg Basin, Romania. Oltenia. Studii Si Comunicari. Stiintele Naturii, 26, 315-322.
  • Vasile, S., Csiki-Sava, Z., & Venczel, M. (2013). Anew madtsoiid snake from the Upper Cretaceous of the Hateg Basin, Western Romania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33, 1100-1119.
  • Vasile, S2019). New discoveries from the latest cretaceous "Pui Swamp" vertebrate fossil locality (Hateg Basin, Hunedoara County). Argesis, 27, 91-104.
  • Venczel, M., & Codrea, V. A. (2016). Anew teiid lizard from the Late Cretaceous of the Hateg Basin, Romania and its phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical relationships. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 14, 219-237.
  • Venczel, M., & Codrea, V. A. (2019). Anew Theriosuchus -like crocodyliform from the Maastrichtian of Romania. Cretaceous Research, 100, 24-38.
  • Venczel, M., Gardner, J. D., Codrea, V. A., Csiki-Sava, Z., Vasile, S., & Solomon, A. A. (2016). New insights into Europe' s most diverse Late Cretaceous anuran assemblage from the Maastrichtian of western Romania. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 96, 61-95.
  • Vila, B., Selles, A. G., & Brusatte, S. L. (2016). Diversity and faunal changes in the latest Cretaceous dinosaur communities of southwestern Europe. Cretaceous Research, 57, 552-564.
  • Vremir, M., Csiki-Sava, Z., Brusatte, S. L., Totoianu, R., & Norell, M. A. (2017). Arhabdodontid dinosaur skeleton from the uppermost Campanian/lowermost Maastrichtian of Sebes (Transylvanian Basin). Zitteliana, 91, 94-95.
  • Vremir, M., Dyke, G., Csiki-Sava, Z., Grigorescu, D., & Buffetaut, E. (2018). Partial mandible of a giant pterosaur from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the Hateg Basin, Romania. Lethaia, 51, 493-503.
  • Vremir, M., Balc, R., Csiki-Sava, Z., Brusatte, S. L., Dyke, G., Naish, D., & Norell, M. A. (2014). Petresti-Arini - an important but ephemeral Upper Cretaceous continental vertebrate site in the southwestern Transylvanian Basin, Romania. Cretaceous Research, 49, 13-38.
  • Vremir, M., Witton, M., Naish, D., Dyke, G., Brusatte, S. L., Norell, M. A., & Totoianu, R. (2015). Amedium-sized robust-necked azhdarchid pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchidae) from the Maastrichtian of Pui (Hateg Basin, Transylvania, Romania). American Museum Novitates, 3827, 1-16.
  • Wang, X., Csiki, Z., Osi, A., & Dyke, G. J. (2011). The first definitive record of a fossil bird from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the Hateg Basin, Romania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 31, 227-230.
  • Weishampel, D. B., Grigorescu, D., & Norman, D. B. (1991). The dinosaurs of Transylvania. National Geographic Research and Exploration, 7, 196-215.
  • Weishampel, D. B., Norman, D. B., & Grigorescu, D. (1993). Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus from the Late Cretaceous of Romania: the most basal hadrosaurid dinosaur. Palaeontology, 36, 361-385.
  • Weishampel, D. B., Jianu, C., Csiki, Z., & Norman, D. B. (2003). Osteology and phylogeny of Zalmoxes (n. g.), an unusual euornithopod dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of Romania. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 1, 65-123.
  • Xu, X., Forster, C. A., Clark, J. M., & Mo, J. (2006). Abasal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 273, 2135-2140.
  • Yang, Y., Wu, W., Dieudonne, P.-E., & Godefroit, P. (2020). Anew basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China. PeerJ, 8, e9832.