Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest highly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Haţeg Basin (western Romania; Densuş-Ciula Formation)

• Gábor Botfalvai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gábor Botfalvai, Zoltán Csiki-Sava

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: botfalvai@staff.elte.hu

  Affiliations Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Palaeontology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, HUN-REN–MTM–ELTE Research Group for Paleontology, Budapest, Hungary

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5479-9036

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• Zoltán Csiki-Sava ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gábor Botfalvai, Zoltán Csiki-Sava

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Palaeontology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Department of Geology, Mineralogy and Palaeontology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7144-0327

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• János Magyar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Palaeontology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Department of Geology and Paleontology, Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Centre, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary

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• Barna Páll-Gergely,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Plant Protection Institute, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary

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• Levente Koczó,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Palaeontology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

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• Daniel Ţabără,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Geology, Al. I. Cuza University of Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania

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• Gergő Konecsni,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Palaeontology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

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• Soma Budai

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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