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Geological formation in Romania

Bauxite of Cornet
Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous, Berriasian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Overlies	Overlying and infilling limestone
Lithology
Primary	Mudstone, Conglomerate
Location
Coordinates	30°02′06″N 35°15′08″E / 30.035°N 35.2522°E / 30.035; 35.2522
Country	Romania
Type section
Named for	A bauxite mine near Cornet, Romania where the formation outcrops
Year defined	1978
Bauxite of Cornet (Romania)

The Bauxite of Cornet is a geological formation in Romania whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. It exists as karstic sediments infilling fissures and caves in limestone.

The formation was discovered in a former bauxite mine near Cornet and Oradea during a mine explosion in 1978 but the mine flooded in 1999 so further excavations of the formation are currently impossible.

Vertebrate paleofauna

Pterosaurs

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Reclassified taxon

Taxon falsely reported as present

Dubious taxon or junior synonym

Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; ~~crossed out~~ taxa are discredited.

Dinosaurs of the Bauxite of Cornet
Genus	Species	Location	Member	Abundance	Notes	Images
Eurolimnornis	E. corneti	Judetul Bihor			Formerly classified as a bird or theropod, actually a pterodactyloid pterosaur.
Palaeocursornis	P. corneti	Judetul Bihor			Formerly classified as a bird or theropod, actually an azhdarchid pterosaur.

Dinosaurs

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Reclassified taxon

Taxon falsely reported as present

Dubious taxon or junior synonym

Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; ~~crossed out~~ taxa are discredited.

Dinosaurs of the Bauxite of Cornet
Genus	Species	Location	Member	Abundance	Notes	Images
Archaeopteryx	Indeterminate	Judetul Bihor			Possible indeterminate avialan remains.	Iguanodon.
Theropoda	Indeterminate	Judetul Bihor			Formerly referred to Aristosuchus.
Bihariosaurus	B. baxiticus	Judetul Bihor			A possible relative of Camptosaurus. Formerly referred to Valdosaurus.
Hypsilophodon	Indeterminate	Judetul Bihor
Ornithopoda'	Indeterminate	Judetul Bihor
cf. ?Owenodon	Indeterminate	Judetul Bihor

See also

List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

Footnotes

Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 562. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
^ "29.1 Judetul Bihor, Romania; 1. Bauxite of Cornet," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 562.
^ ^ Federico L. Agnolin and David Varricchio (2012). "Systematic reinterpretation of Piksi barbarulna Varricchio, 2002 from the Two Medicine Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Western USA (Montana) as a pterosaur rather than a bird". Geodiversitas. 34 (4): 883–894. doi:10.5252/g2012n4a10. Archived from the original on 2013-01-07.
^ Posmoşanu, E. (2003). "Iguanodontian dinosaurs from the lower Cretaceous Bauxite site from Romania" (PDF). Acta Paleontologica Romaniae. 4: 431–439.

References

Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.

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