Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae (V), 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Bridges that span knowledge and soul. A salute on behalf of the Romanian Society of Paleontologists and of the University in Cluj

  Ioan I. BUCUR

• A salute on behalf of the University in Iaşi

  Leonard OLARU

• A salute on behalf of the Department of Geology-Paleontology

Mihai BRÂNZILĂ

• Centenarul Laboratorului de Paleontologie. August 1905-Septembrie 2005

Theodor NEAGU

SYMPOSIUM CONTRIBUTIONS

• First notice of the Zoophycos in the Upper Valanginian deposits from the Bucegi Mountains (South Carpathians)

Victor BARBU

• Macclintockia basinervis (ROSSM.) KNOBL. in Cenozoic sediments in the Rhodopes Mt. Region (S Bulgaria)

Vladimir BOZUKOV

• Microfossil assemblages from the Badenian/Sarmatian boundary in boreholes from the Moldavian Platform

Mihai BRÂNZILĂ and Carmen CHIRA

• Micropaleontological assemblages from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous deposits of Trascău Mountains and their biostratigraphic significance

Ioan I. BUCUR and Emanoil SĂSĂRAN

• Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Saint-Chinian area (southern France): a review of previous research and an update on recent finds

Eric BUFFETAUT

• From the thesaurus of the museum collections. I. Liassic ammonites from Munteana (Sviniţa zone, Southern Carpathians, Romania)

John H. CALLOMON and Eugen GRĂDINARU

• New finding of Mammut praetypicum (Proboscidea, Mammalia), a zygodont mastodon from Păgaia (NW Romania)

Vlad A. CODREA, Márton VENCZEL and Elisabeta POPA

• A new multituberculate specimen from the Maastrichtian of Pui, Romania and reassessment of affinities of Barbatodon

Zoltan CSIKI, Dan GRIGORESCU and Martin RÜCKLIN

• Lower Turonian at the Beaza-Comarnic highway bridge pierfeet (Prahova Valley)

Eugen Tiberiu DABU

• The stratigraphic position of the Late Cretaceous inoceramids from the Olăneşti – Cheia Basin (Southern Carpathians)

Răsvan DAMIAN and Iuliana LAZĂR

• Mesozoic algae of Family Protohalimedaceae Dragastan, Littler & Littler, 2002 (Chlorophycota): A critical review

Ovidiu N. DRAGASTAN and Felix SCHLAGINTWEIT

• Early Cretaceous microfacies and algae from the Central – Eastern sectors of the Moesian Carbonate Platform

Ovidiu N. DRAGASTAN, Ion Stefan POPESCU and Aida POPESCU

• Review of the pteraspidiform heterostracans (Vertebrata, Agnatha) from the Devonian of Podolia, Ukraine, in the Theodor Văscăuţanu collection, Bucharest, Romania

Mihai DUMBRAVA and Alain BLIECK

• Sarmatian micropaleontological assemblages and sedimentary paleoenvironments in the southern Transylvanian Basin

Sorin FILIPESCU, Lóránd SILYE and Csaba KRÉZSEK

• From the thesaurus of the museum collections. II. Early Norian ammonoids from Roşia-Sohodol region (Apuseni Mts.)

Eugen GRĂDINARU

• Rediscovery of a “Forgotten land”: the last three decades of searches on the dinosaur-bearing deposits from the Hateg Basin

Dan GRIGORESCU

• Dental eruption sequence in Mesopithecus pentelicus

Katerina HARVATI and Stephen R. FROST

• New Middle Miocene vertebrate localities from Subpiatra (Bihor district, Romania)

János HÍR and Márton VENCZEL

• Sarmatian petrified wood within “Bursuc Flora” (Moldova Rep.)

Stănilă IAMANDEI, Eugenia IAMANDEI and Theodor OBADĂ

• Early Cretaceous Protopinaceous fossil wood from South Dobrogea, România

Eugenia IAMANDEI and Stănilă IAMANDEI

• Elopteryx revisited - A new bird-like specimen from the Maastrichtian of the Haţeg Basin (Romania)

Eugen KESSLER, Dan GRIGORESCU and Zoltan CSIKI

• Depth gradient proxies: palaeoecology versus sedimentology. Case study from the Turea Group deposits of the Paleogene Transylvanian Basin

J. Szilamér KOVÁCS

• The Jurassic bivalve fauna from the western side of the Bucegi Mountains. Part II. Subclass Pteriomorphia (Order Pectinoida)

Iuliana LAZĂR

• Contribution to the study of the Dacian/Romanian limit in the basin of Buzău Valley based on drilling results

Victoria LUBENESCU and Dana V.LUBENESCU-JANSA

• Biostratigraphic value of the taxa Zagrabica, Radix and Melanoides identified in the Neogene deposits of the Dacic Basin

Rodica MACALEŢ

• The new system of the Superfamily Quinqueloculinoidea CUSHMAN, 1917 (Foraminifera)

A. Valeria MIKHALEVICH

• Albian Foraminifera of the Romanian Plain. Planktonic Foraminifera

Theodor NEAGU

• Late Cretaceous microfauna of the Olăneşti Valley– Cheia Valley basin; paleoenvironmental interpretations

Theodor NEAGU and Răsvan DAMIAN

• La presence des genres Platybelodon BORISSIAK, 1928 et Amebelodon BARBOUR, 1927 (Proboscidea, Mammalia) sur le territoire de la Republique de Moldova

Théodore OBADĂ

• Some problems of biostratigraphy and palynological correlation of Upper Formation (Tg. 4) from Tulgheş Group, East Carpathians (Romania)

Leonard OLARU

• Les nano-gastéropodes Romaniens entre fossiles et actualité

Ioana PANĂ

• Aspects of Early Jurassic Romanian Palaeobotany and Palynology. Part VI. Anina, an exceptional locality

Mihai Emilian POPA

• Middle Miocene Foraminifera from Romania: Order Buliminida, Part I

Gheorghe POPESCU and Ileana-Monica CRIHAN

• Middle Miocene Foraminifera from Romania: Order Buliminida, Part II

Gheorghe POPESCU and Ileana-Monica CRIHAN

• Lower Sarmatian microfauna from the hydrogeological well FA Hârlău (Iaşi County)

Emil RADU and Marius STOICA

• Paleogene litho- and biostratigraphy of the NE Getic Depression (Romania)

Relu - Dumitru ROBAN and Mihaela Carmen MELINTE

• Sedimentologic and micropalaeontological study of an Upper Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian) regressive facies development - from basin to upper slope sediments (Gilău Mountains, Plescuţa Valley, NW-Romania)

Liana SĂSĂRAN, Ramona BĂLC and Emanoil SĂSĂRAN

• Late Badenian foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils and pteropod assemblages identified in boreholes from Cluj-Napoca

Anca-Andreea SUCIU, Carmen CHIRA and Mirela Violetta POPA

• Ichno- and body-fossils from the Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic Sinivir Formation in the Balaban Dere Valley (east Stara Planina Mts., East Bulgaria) and the problem of the Triassic/Jurassic boundary

Platon TCHOUMATCHENCO, Marlena YANEVA, Alfred UCHMAN, Dimiter TRONKOV, Ekatherina TRIFONOVA and Lyudmila PETRUNOVA

• Considérations concernant la structure taxonomique du genre Monotis BRONN, 1830 (Bivalvia, Trias)

Ilie TURCULEŢ

• New data about the age and the stratigraphical position in the Cretaceous wildflysh of the olistolith from Praşca Peak (Rarău syncline, Eastern Carpathians, Romania)

Paul ŢIBULEAC

• Preliminary data of a biostratigraphic and palaeoecological study based on microfossils (calcareous nannofossils, foraminifers) from Cepari Quarry (north-eastern Transylvania, Romania)

Ana-Maria VULC and Lóránd SILYE