ELEVENTH ROMANIAN SYMPOSIUM ON PALAEONTOLOGY Bucharest, 27-28 September 2017 ABSTRACT BOOK IULIANA LAZĂR, MIHAELA GRĂDINARU, ȘTEFAN VASILE (Editors) 2017 ISSN 2344-3499 ISSN-L 2344-3499 ISBN 978-606-16-0912-3 Copyright © Iuliana Lazăr, Mihaela Grădinaru, Ștefan Vasile, 2017 Tiparit la S.C. MRT Marketing Research and Training S.R.L Printed in Romania ELEVENTH ROMANIAN SYMPOSIUM ON PALAEONTOLOGY Bucharest, 27-28 September 2017 ABSTRACT BOOK IULIANA LAZĂR, MIHAELA GRĂDINARU, ȘTEFAN VASILE (Editors) 2017 Abstract Book The 11th Romanian Symposium on Palaeontology Bucharest, September 27th-28th, 2017 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Iuliana Lazăr Executive President (University of Bucharest) Alexandru Andrășanu Vice-President (University of Bucharest) Marius Stoica Vice-President (University of Bucharest) Mihai Popa Vice-President (University of Bucharest) Zoltan Csiki-Sava Vice-President (University of Bucharest) Carmen Chira Vice-President (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Liana Săsăran Vice-President (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Viorel Ionesi Vice-President (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași) Daniel Țabară Vice-President (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași) Oana Peiu Secretary (Research Institute of the University of Bucharest) Mihaela Grădinaru Secretary (University of Bucharest) Alina Floriu Secretary (University of Bucharest) Ștefan Vasile Secretary (University of Bucharest) Roxana Pirnea Secretary (University of Bucharest) Dragoș Panaitescu Secretary (University of Bucharest) Gabriela Craciun Technical Staff (University of Bucharest) Alexandru Zlibut Technical Staff (University of Bucharest) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ștefan Vasile (University of Bucharest) Mihaela Grădinaru (University of Bucharest) Marius Stoica (University of Bucharest) Iuliana Lazăr (University of Bucharest) The 11th Romanian Symposium on Palaeontology was organized by the Romanian Society of Palaeontologists, Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), Department of Geology, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest with support from Geomedia Research Centre, University of Bucharest E.ON Energie România S.A. Geological Institute of Romania Their help is gratefully acknowledged by the Organizing Committee. The editors are also grateful to Marius Stoica, Lea Rausch, Mihai Popa, Alexandru Andrășanu and Csiki-Sava Zoltan for the revision of the abstracts. The organizers wish to express their sincere gratitude to all students who contributed to the practical success of this meeting. 7KHWK5RPDQLDQ6\PSRVLXPRQ3DODHRQWRORJ\6HSWHPEHU CONTENT Andrășanu, A. – Geoparks and Education in Geosciences …………………………………. 1-2 Antoniade, C., Ioniţă, C., Radu, E. & Stoica, M. – Sarmatian-Maeotian microfauna from Musata borehole, Vaslui ………………………………………………………............ 3 Antoniade, C. & Limberea, E.L. – Oligocene microfauna from Prigoria borehole, Getic Depression …………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Baciu, D.S., Grădianu, I., Seserman, A. & Dumitriu, T.C. – Oligocene fish fauna from the Bituminous Marls of Vrancea Nappe, Eastern Carpathians, Romania …………… 5-6 Bindiu-Haitonic, R., Filipescu, S., Aroldi, C., Veress, E. & Damian, M. – Foraminiferal assemblages from the deep water deposits of the Tarcău Nappe (Moldova Valley Ba- sin). Age and paleoenvironmental interpretation……………………………………… 7-8 Boivin, S., Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B., Lazăr, I., Durlet, C., Martindale, R. C., El Hmidi, K. & Martini R. – A little walk between Liassic sponges and corals ……… 9-10 Bojar, A.-V., Guja, O., Pelc, A., Vasile, Ş. & Piotrowska, N. – Bison bonasus skull from the Bihor Mountains, Romania: isotopic and morphological investigations ………..... 11 Briceag, A., Dimitriu, R.G., Stănescu, I., Secrieru, D., Opreanu, G., Barbu, B., Stanciu, I. & Nuțu, G. – Paleoenvironmental changes from the Late Roman settlement Hal- myris, Danube Delta results ………………………………………………………… 12-13 Bucur, I.I., Săsăran E., Pleş G., Mircescu C.V. & Oprişa A. – Barremian-lowermost Ap- tian microfossils from the patch-reefs of the Dâmbovicioara zone ……………… 14-15 Călin, A.G., Popa, M.E. & Iamandei, S. – New fossil woods from Bozovici Basin ……… 16 Chelaru, R. – Middle Miocene coralline algal assemblages from intra-Carpathian basins of Romania ………………………………………………………………………………. 17 Chira, C.M., Aroldi, C., Popa, M.V. & Giurea, E. – Calcareous nannofossils, mollusks and sedimentological investigations in the Sarmatian to Romanian deposits from the Dacian Basin …………………………………………………………………………. 18-19 Chira, C.M., Balog, A.-A., Negru, R. & Bedelean, H. – Badenian calcareous nannofossils and foraminifera from the Ocolisu Mic Section (Strei Basin, Central Paratethys, Ro- mania): Taxonomy and paleoecology …………………………………………… 20 Codrea, A.V., Venczel, M., Rățoi, G.B. & Ursachi, L. – Stratigraphic distribution of the Middle-Late Miocene artiodactyls from Moldavia (Eastern Romania) ………………. 21-22 Csiki-Sava, Z., Meng, J., Vremir, M., Vasile, Ș., Brusatte, S.L. & Norell, M. A. – Ghosts in the night - multituberculate diversity at the feet of the latest Cretaceous Transylvanian dinosaurs ……………………………………………………………… 23-24 Diaconu, A.-C., Tóth, M., Lamentowicz, M., Heiri, O., Panait, A.-M., Grindean, R., Feurdean, A. & Tanţău, I. – Quantitative reconstruction of Holocene climate varia- bility in the Eastern Carpathians, Romania ……………………………………… 25 Dragastan, O.N. – Paleozoic calcareous algae from Denver Collection donors, Museum Support Center, Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C., U.S.A.) ……………… 26 7KHWK5RPDQLDQ6\PSRVLXPRQ3DODHRQWRORJ\6HSWHPEHU Drăguşin, V., Vasile, Ş., Terhune, C., Petculescu, A., Robu, M., Vlaicu, M., Constantin, S., Ştiucă, E., Taron, U.H., Hofreiter, M. & Paijmans, J.L.A. – Late Pleistocene occurrence of Cuon alpinus in Romania ……………………………………………… 27 Dumitraşcu, V., Petculescu, A., Vasile, Ş., Cosac, M., Murătoreanu, G., Vereş, D., Niţă, L., Schmidt, C., Hambach, U., Alexandru, R., Cuculici, R., Buzea, D.L., Mărgărit, M. & Deneş, I. – Preliminary report on the faunal assemblage from a Middle Paleolithic site in the Vârghiş Gorges (Perşani Mountains, Romania) ……… 28-29 Dumitrică, P. – Crucicanistridae n. fam., a new family of post-Triassic Entactinarian Radi- olaria …………………………………………………………………………… 30-31 Dumitriu, S.D., Loghin, S., Dubicka, Z. & Ionesi, V. – Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Middle Miocene deposits from SE Poland and NE Romania based on micro- paleontological studies ………………………………………………………… 32-33 Faur, L., Mirea, I-C., Robu, M., Kenesz, M., Arghir, R., Dimofte, D., Codrea, A.V., Petculescu, A., Constantin, S. & Soare, B. – The mineralogical composition of MIS 3 cave bear bones from Muierilor Cave, Southern Carpathians, Romania …………… 34 Filipescu, S., Zănoagă, L., Bindiu-Haitonic, R., Săsăran, E. & Silye, L. – A discussion on the Badenian - Sarmatian transition based on foraminifera ……………………… 35-36 Floroiu, A., Vasiliev, I., Stoica. M., van Baak, C.G.C., de Leeuw, A., Krijgsman, W. & Mulch, A. – Stable isotopes on ostracods indicate marine incursions in the Dacian Basin during Upper Miocene and Pliocene …………………………………………… 37-38 Gallemí, J., Dochev, D. & Metodiev, L. – The echinoids of the K/T boundary Moravitsa section (Western Fore-Balkan, Bulgaria)……………………………………………… 39-40 Ghiţă, D., Stan, C.D., Creţu, D.M. & Şindilar, V.D. – Early and Middle Miocene micro- fauna and nannoplankton assemblages from Totea – Valeni Area (Southern-Central Getic Depression, Romania) ………………………………………………… 41-42 Głowniak, E. – Palaeobiogeographic differentiation and phylogeny of the Oxfordian (Up- per Jurassic) perisphinctid ammonites in the Submediterranean Province and its im- plications for the intra- and interprovincial biostratigraphic correlations ………..... 43-44 Grădinaru, E. – 150 years from the publication of Carl Ferdinand Peters' monograph on the geology of Dobrogea – the palaeontological legacy ……………………………… 45-46 Grădinaru, E. – Tubiphytes-microbial facies, a chemosynthetically-driven oasis in the Bi- thynian (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of North Dobrogea (Romania) ……………… 47-48 Grădinaru, E. & Gaetani, M. – Spathian to Bithynian (Early to Middle Triassic) brachio- pods from North Dobrogea (Romania) ……………………………………..... 49 Grădinaru, E., Lazăr, I., Andrășanu, A. & Grădinaru, M. – Neohoploceras submartini (Mallada, 1887) - a key occurrence for timing the intra-Valanginian stratigraphic gap in the Dâmbovicioara Zone (Southern Carpathians, Romania) ………………………. 50-51 Grădinaru E. & Sobolev E.S. – Late Anisian (Middle Triassic) nautiloids from Cristian (Braşov Mountains, Southern Carpathians, Romania): stratigraphic distribution and paleobiogeographic connections ……………………………………………………… 52-53 Grădinaru, M., Lazăr, I., Petrescu, L. & Ducea, M.N. – Geochemical and mineralogical microbial signatures recorded within Jurassic ferruginous stromatolites from the Ro- 7KHWK5RPDQLDQ6\PSRVLXPRQ3DODHRQWRORJ\6HSWHPEHU manian Carpathians ……………………………………………………………........... 54-55 Grigore, D. & Lazăr I. – Callovian ammonite assemblage from the Rucăr area (Southern Carpathians, Romania) ……………………………………………………………....... 56 Grigore, D., Rusu, S. & Sebe-Rădoi, O.G. – Review of the Jurassic micro- and macro faunal assemblages from the Cetăţii Valley Formation (Râşnov, Southern Carpathi- ans, Romania ………………………………………………………………………. 57 Grigorescu, D. – Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Bucharest ………………….. 58 Grigorescu, D. & Ciobotea Barbu, O. – SEM comparative analysis of eggshell biominer- alization in megaloolithid (Megaloolithus siruguei) dinosaur eggs from the Maas- trichtian of the Hațeg Basin and recent birds …………………………………………