An amphybian caudal vertebra was found on a hand specimen collected
by the late Professor Ion Preda from Upper Carboniferous deposits
of Zagradia, Resita Basin, in the South Carpathians. Professor Preda
collected a substantial flora from Zagradia (Preda et al., 1984).
It is so far the only tetrapod remain in the Upper Paleozoic of
Romania. Ganoid fish were described from the same basin, in Lower
Permian sequences, such as Palaeoniscus duvernoy AGASSIZ,
by Eufrosin in 1946 (Eufrosin, 1957).
References
Eufrosin, C.G., 1957. Prezenta genului Palaeoniscus in
asociatie cu flora autuniana in Valea Berzavita, la vest de Resita.
Anuarul Institutului Geologic al Romaniei, 30: 267-270.
Preda, I., Streanga, V. and Rogoveanu, V., 1984. Le Carbonifere
de la zone de Zagradia (Banat). Analele Univ. Bucuresti: 7.