Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae (VI), 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Cuvânt de deschidere din partea Universitatii Iasi

Leonard OLARU

• Cuvânt de deschidere din partea Universitatii Bucuresti

  Theodor NEAGU

• Bazele paleontologice ale geologiei si biologiei (comunicare în plen)

  Theodor NEAGU

CELEBRATION SESSION

• Profesorul universitar doctor emeritus Leonard Olaru la vârsta de 70 de ani

Ovidiu DRAGASTAN

SYMPOSIUM CONTRIBUTIONS

• Biodiversity and paleoecology of the Miocene calcareous nannoplankton from Sibiu area (Transylvania , Romania)

  Carmen CHIRA & Alexandru MALACU

• Palaeofloristic study of the Volhynian from Râsca (Moldavian Platform) – Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironment implications

  Gabriel CHIRILĂ & Daniel ŢABĂRĂ

•   A sauropod vertebra at Râpa Rosie (Alba District)

  Vlad A. CODREA, Cătălin MURZEA-JIPA & Márton VENCZEL

• The Budurone microvertebrate site from the Maastrichtian of the Hateg Basin - flora, fauna, taphonomy and paleoenvironment

  Zoltán CSIKI, Ana IONESCU & Dan GRIGORESCU

• Calcareous algae of the limestone pebbles from Senonian conglomerates of Western Carpathians (Slovakia)

Ovidiu N. DRAGASTAN, Milan MISIK & Jan SOTAK

• Mesozoic and Cenozoic calcareous algae, praecursors of family Codiaceae

  Ovidiu N. DRAGASTAN

• Professor Liviu Ionesi's contributions to the paleogeographical evolution of the Eastern Carpatians foreland knowledge

  Petru ENCIU & Cristina DUMITRICA

• Foraminifera in the deep-sea environments of the Lower Hida Formation (Transylvanian Basin, Romania)

  Sorin FILIPESCU & Claudia BELDEAN

• A new site with megaloolithid egg remains in the Maastrichtian of the Hateg Basin

  Dan GRIGORESCU & Zoltán CSIKI

• New Sarmatian petrified woods from Moldova Republic

  Stanilă IAMANDEI, Eugenia IAMANDEI, Theodor OBADĂ, Alexandru LUNGU & Vlad POSTOLACHI

• New petrified woods wit hin Sarmatian Somuz Formation, NE Romania

  Stanilă IAMANDEI, Eugenia IAMANDEI & Viorel IONESI

• The importance of calcareous nannoplankton in establishing lithostratigraphic landmarks in the Eocene column of Tarcau Nappe in the Suceava River Basin (Obcina Mare)

  Doru-Toader JURAVLE, Florinel Fănică FLOREA & Laurenţiu BOGATU

• Stratigraphical distribution and palynological correlation between devonian Formations from North Dobrogea and East European Platform

  Alina Carmen LAZĂR

• Le developpement de la faune de Hipparion dans le Sarmatien sur le territoire de la Republique de Moldova

  Alexandru LUNGU

• Les particularités des orictocénoses de la faune de Hipparion du site de Cimişlia

  Alexandru LUNGU & Andrian DELINSCHI

• Le développement des formations fossiliferes du Sarmatien supérieur (Hersonien) le long de l'avant-fosse carpatique (Bassin Dacique, Roumanie)

  Rodica MACALEŢ & Mihai Tudor MUNTEANU

• Oligocene - Lower Miocene events in Romania

  Mihaela MELINTE-DOBRINESCU & Titus BRUSTUR

• Microfacies and microfossils of the Lower Cretaceous limestones from the southern part of Vâlcan Mountains

  Mihai MICHETIUC , Camelia CATINCUŢ & Ioan I. BUCUR

• Some aspects concerning the Quaternary deposits in South Dobrogea

  Mihai Tudor MUNTEANU, Emilia MUNTEANU, Emanoil ŞTIUCĂ, Rodica MACALEŢ & George DUMITRAŞCU

• Negrişoara Group from East Carpathians , Romania : lithology, geotectonics, palynostratigraphy and the Vendian / Cambrian boundary

  Leonard OLARU

• Geotectonic context and palynological arguments for Cambrian / Ordovician boundary in the metamorphites of Tulghes Group from East Carpathians , Romania

  Leonard OLARU

• New Sarmatian plant macroremains from Oltenia Region (Romania). Part I

  Valentin PARASCHIV

• Middle Weichselian paleoenvironments in North - Western Transylvania: sedimentology, palynology and malacofauna analysis

  Ionel Florin PENDEA, Ioan TANŢĂU, James GRAY , Bassam GHALEB , Claudia BELDEAN , Alin Sabin BĂDĂRAU , Angela MICLEA , Ramona BĂLC & Attila TOTH

• Contributions to the knowledge of the rotaliiform foraminifera from the marine Middle Miocene deposits from Romania

  Gheorghe POPESCU & Ileana-Monica CRIHAN

• Taxonomic notes on the Badenian corals from Lapugiu de Sus (Faget Basin, Romania)

  Monica RUS & Mirela Violetta POPA

• Remains of fossiliferous rocks similar to those characteristic of the Arjana Nappe as part of the exotic material associated to the Upper Cretaceous olistostrome of the Cerna Unit: Danubian - Southern Carpathians

  Ion STĂNOIU

• The Westphalian macroflora in Retezat Mountains: main evidence for the Mesozoic age of most rocks included in „the Tulisa Series” (Southern Carpathians)

  Ion STĂNOIU, Anie LEJAL – NICOL

• Considerations concernant les aptychi d'Éocrétacé de la Roumanie

  Ilie TURCULEŢ

• Presence of big size ammonites in the Jurassic olistoliths of Transylvanian Nappe(s) from Rarău Syncline (Eastern Carpathians, Romania)

  Paul ŢIBULEAC

• Paleontological update of Dealul Melcilor (Braşov)

  Daniel UNGUREANU

  IN MEMORIAM

• Academician Liviu Ionesi – viaţa şi opera

  Leonard OLARU

• Profesor Universitar Răzvan Givulescu : o viaţă închinată ştiinţei şi omeniei

  Nicolae ŢICLEANU