Bauxite of Cornet explained

Bauxite of Cornet
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Early Cretaceous,
Period:	Berriasian
Prilithology:	Mudstone, Conglomerate
Namedfor:	A bauxite mine near Cornet, Romania where the formation outcrops
Coordinates:	30.035°N 35.2522°W
Year Ts:	1978
Overlies:	Overlying and infilling limestone

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.^[1] 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

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.^[2]
Palaeocursornis	P. corneti	Judetul Bihor			Formerly classified as a bird or theropod, actually an azhdarchid pterosaur.

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs of the Bauxite of Cornet
Genus	Species	Location	Member	Abundance	Notes	Images
Archaeopteryx^[3]	Indeterminate	Judetul Bihor			Possible indeterminate avialan remains.
Theropoda	Indeterminate	Judetul Bihor			Formerly referred to Aristosuchus.
Bihariosaurus^[4]	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

References

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

Notes and References

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. .
^ 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.
"29.1 Judetul Bihor, Romania; 1. Bauxite of Cornet," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 562.
Posmoşanu. E.. 2003. Iguanodontian dinosaurs from the lower Cretaceous Bauxite site from Romania. Acta Paleontologica Romaniae. 4. 431–439.