Brusturi (, ) is a commune in

Bihor County Bihor County (, ) is a county (județ) in western Romania. With a total area of , Bihor is Romania's 6th largest county geographically and the main county in the historical region of Crișana. Its capital city is Oradea (Nagyvárad). Toponymy ...

Crișana Crișana (, , ) is a geographical and historical region of Romania named after the Criș (Körös) River and its three tributaries: the Crișul Alb, Crișul Negru, and Crișul Repede. In Romania, the term is sometimes extended to include areas ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

with a population of 3,469 people. It is composed of eight villages: Brusturi, Cuieșd (''Kövesd''), Loranta (''Loránta''), Orvișele (''Orvisel''), Păulești (''Felsőtótfalu''), Picleu (''Szóvárhegy''), Țigăneștii de Criș (''Cigányfalva''), and Varasău (''Varaszótanya''). The commune lies on the banks of the river

Valea Fânețelor The Valea Fânețelor (also: ''Valea Fânațelor'' or ''Ghepiș'') is a left tributary of the river Barcău in Romania. It discharges into the Barcău near Cenaloș.

. It is located in the north-central part of the county, east of the county seat,

Oradea Oradea (, , ; ; ) is a city in Romania, located in the Crișana region. It serves as the administrative county seat, seat of Bihor County and an economic, social, and cultural hub in northwestern Romania. The city lies between rolling hills on ...

. Brusturi is crossed by

national road The National Road (also known as the Cumberland Road) was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, the road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and was a main tran ...

, which connects

DN1 DN1 () is an important national road in Romania which links Bucharest with the northwestern part of the country and the border with Hungary via Borș. The main cities linked by DN1 are Bucharest, Ploiești, Brașov, Sibiu, Alba Iulia, Cluj-Napoc ...

(starting from Uileacu de Criș) to (ending in Cenaloș). In 1978, two miners (Ioan Bumb and Petru Lele) discovered dinosaur bones in a

bauxite Bauxite () is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content. It is the world's main source of aluminium and gallium. Bauxite consists mostly of the aluminium minerals gibbsite (), boehmite (γ-AlO(OH)), and diaspore (α-AlO(OH) ...

mine at Brusturi (Cornet). The

Berriasian In the geological timescale, the Berriasian is an age/ stage of the Early/Lower Cretaceous. It is the oldest subdivision in the entire Cretaceous. It has been taken to span the time between 143.1 ±0.6 Ma and 137.05 ± 0.2 (million years ago) ...

bauxite deposits at Cornet have yielded approximately 10,000 bones and bone fragments, mainly from

ornithopod Ornithopoda () is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods (). They represent one of the most successful groups of herbivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous. The most primitive members of the group were bipedal and relatively sm ...

dinosaurs and rarer

pterosaur Pterosaurs are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria. They existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the Late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (228 million to 66 million years ago). Pterosaurs are the earli ...

s (see:

Dinosaurs of Romania The dinosaurs of Romania are mostly Cretaceous in age, though a series of footprints referred to '' Parabrontopodus mcintoshi'' was described from the Early Jurassic of Anina, southwestern Romania.Pieńkowski, G., Popa, M. E., & Kędzior, A. (2009 ...

References

Brusturi Localities in Crișana {{Bihor-geo-stub