ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA ROMANIAE
Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae Vol. 5, 2005
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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 Iasi
Leonard OLARU

A salute on behalf of the Department of Geology-Paleontology
Mihai BRÂNZIL
Ă

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 BRÂNZIL
Ă and Carmen CHIRA

Micropaleontological assemblages from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous deposits of Trascau Mountains and their biostratigraphic significance
Ioan I. BUCUR and Emanoil S
ĂSĂRAN
 
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 (Svinita zone, Southern Carpathians, Romania)
John H. CALLOMON and Eugen GR ĂDINARU

New finding of Mammut praetypicum (Proboscidea, Mammalia), a zygodont mastodon from Pagaia (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 Olanesti – Cheia Basin (Southern Carpathians)
R
ăsvan 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 Vascautanu collection, Bucharest, Romania
Mihai DUMBRAV
Ă 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 Rosia-Sohodol region (Apuseni Mts.)
Eugen GRADINARU
 
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.)
Stanil
ă IAMANDEI, Eugenia IAMANDEI and Theodor OBADĂ

Early Cretaceous Protopinaceous fossil wood from South Dobrogea, România
Eugenia IAMANDEI and Stanil
ă IAMANDEI

Elopteryx revisited - A new bird-like specimen from the Maastrichtian of the Hateg 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 LAZ
ĂR

Contribution to the study of the Dacian/Romanian limit in the basin of Buzau 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 MACALE
Ţ

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 Olanesti Valley– Cheia Valley basin; paleoenvironmental interpretations
Theodor NEAGU and R
ăsvan DAMIAN

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

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

Les nano-gastéropodes Romaniens entre fossiles et actualité
Ioana PAN
Ă

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 Hârlau (Iasi 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 (Gilau Mountains, Plescuta Valley, NW-Romania)
Liana S
ĂSĂRAN, Ramona BÂLC and Emanoil SĂSĂRAN

Late Badenian foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils and pteropod assemblages identified in boreholes from Cluj-Napoca
Anca-Andreea SUCIU, Carmen CHIRA and Mirela Violeta 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 TURCULE
Ţ

New data about the age and the stratigraphical position in the Cretaceous wildflysh of the olistolith from Prasca Peak (Rarau 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

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