The 12th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology
Cluj-Napoca, September 19th-21st, 2019
Dedicated to the 100th Aniversary of Romanian University in Cluj-Napoca
THIRD CIRCULAR
The 12th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology, organized by the Romanian Society of Palaeontologists and the Department of Geology of the Babeş-Bolyai University, will be held in Cluj-Napoca, September 19th to 21st, 2019.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ioan I. Bucur Executive President (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Iuliana Lazăr Vice-President (University of Bucharest)
Liana Săsăran Vice-President (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Viorel Ionesi Vice-President (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași)
Sorin Filipescu (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Carmen Chira (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Ioan Tanţău (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Emanoil Săsăran (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Secretariate
Mirela Popa (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) George Pleş (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Raluca Haitonic (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Lorand Silye (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Cristian Mircescu (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Alin Oprişa (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Andrei Panait (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Szabolcs Kövecsi (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Voichiţa Reszeg (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
VENUE The 12th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology will be held at the Department of Geology of the Babeş-Bolyai University, 1 M. Kogălniceanu Str., Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
LANGUAGE OF THE SYMPOSIUM English will be the official language of the Symposium.
SYMPOSIUM THEMES Invertebrate Palaeontology Vertebrate Palaeontology Micropalaeontology Palaeobotany and Palynology Palaeoecology and Palaeogeography Taphonomy and Ichnology Biostratigraphy Sedimentology and Microfacies Geoheritage and Geoconservation
REGISTRATION FEE
Full, Non-SPR members 50 EUR (or the equivalent in RON) Full, SPR members: 30 EUR (or the equivalent in RON) Students, non-SPR members: 10 EUR (or the equivalent in RON) Students, SPR members: Free of charge. Symposium registration fee covers the coffee breaks during the symposium and the abstract - field trip volume.
Payment options The fees should be paid in cash at the registration desk at the beginning/during the symposium. MEETING SCHEDULE • Registration: starts on Wednesday, 18th September 2019 at 3:00 p.m. and will be open on Thursday 19th September 2019 from 8.00 to 9.00 a.m. • Opening session: starts on Thurstday, 19th September 2019 at 9:00 a.m. • Scientific Sessions: Thursday and Friday, 19th–20th September 2019 •The General Assembly of the RSP Members: Fiday, 20th September 2019 at 5:00 p.m. • Post-meeting field trip: Saturday, 21st September 2019
ACCOMMODATION Cluj-Napoca offers a wide range of accommodation facilities. Some discount reservations will be also available in the University’s hosting facilities (see table at the end).
SOCIAL PROGRAMME Icebreaker party - The icebreaker party will be held on Thursday, 19th September 2019, 7:00 p.m. at the venue of the Symposium. Symposium dinner - The Symposium Dinner will be held on Fiday, 20th September 2019, 7:30 p.m. at the “Hotel Victoria” restaurant. The rate is 20 Euro per person. SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
September 18, 2019 – Registration (at the Symposium venue)
September 19, 2019 From 8.00 onwards – Registration (will be available all day at the symposium venue)
9.00 – Opening (E. Stoicovici room)
9.05-9.15 – 100 years of Romanian university in Cluj (Liana Sasaran)
9.15-10.45 – Plenary lectures (E. Stoicovici room)
9.15-9.45 – Riding, R. - Ocean acidification and the interglacial decline of coral reef
stromatolites
9.45-10.15 – Granier, B. - Microfossil stratigraphy in carbonate platforms of the Tethys Ocean, in
Urgonian facies and at the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition (methods and implications)
10.15-10.45 – Papazzoni, C.A. - Nummulite banks: a review
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10.45-11.20 – Coffee break
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11.20 – 13.00 – Oral presentations
E. Stoicovici room 11.20-11.40 – Grădinaru, M., Lazăr, I., Ducea, M.N. & Petrescu, L. - Geochemical and
mineralogical evidence of microbial signatures related to genesis of the Middle Jurassic
ferruginous stromatolites (Southern Carpathians, Romania)
11.40-12.00 – Lazăr, I., Pleș, G., Grădinaru, M., Bucur, I.I., Săsăran, E., Oprișa, A & Ungureanu,
R. - Facies and depositional setting of the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous platform
carbonates from eastern South Carpathians (Bucegi Mountains, Romania)
12.00-12.20 – Schlagintweit, F., Rashidi, K. & Thajbakhsh, G.R. - The Mount Chah Torsh
section, Central Iran: a new K/T shallow marine sequence
12.20-12.40 - Popescu, G. & Crihan, I.M. - Paleogene Foraminifera from Micești (Cluj district,
Romania)
12.40-13.00 - Ioniţă , C. & Singhel, C.-V. - Lithology and dating using microfauna analysis on
Sarmatian cutting samples recovered by 2 wells in the Siliştea area
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13.00-15.30 – Lunch Break
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15.30-16.30 – Oral presentations
E. Stoicovici room 15.30-15.50 - Stoica, M. & Rausch. L. - Pliocene-Pleistocene ostracods from Caspian Basin
15.50-16.10 - Tîrlă, M.–L., Lazăr, I., Stoica M., Grădinaru M. & Mirea, I.–C. - Preliminary
microfacies analyses on the Middle–Upper Jurassic transition in the Buila-Vânturarița
Massif (Southern Carpathians, Romania)
16.10-16.30 - Belhadji A., Bartolini A., Belkebir L., Saint Martin J.-P. & Bessedik M. -
Morphological variability in planktonic foraminifers from Messinian sediments (Eastern
Dahra, Algeria)
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16.30-17.00 – Coffee break
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E. Stoicovici room
17.00-17.20 – Grădinaru, E. & Vašíček, Z. - Dating the final stage of the Eastern Getic Carbonate
Platform, by ammonite fauna
17.20-17.40 - Głowniak, E., Wierzbowski, H. & Grabowski, J. - The Prososphinctes Bioevent
(Ammonoidea, Perisphinctidae) in the Cordatum Zone (Lower Oxfordian) as a proxy for
environmental changes in the marine ecosystem — Polish Jura Chain, central Poland
17.40-18.00 - Posmoșanu, E. - Analyses of bioerosion on Middle Miocene bivalve shells and
corals from Tășad, Bihor, Romania
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18.30-21 – Icebreaking party __________________________________________________________________________________
September 19, 2019
11.20 – 13.00 – Oral presentations
I. Popescu-Voiteşti room 11.20-11.40 - Cavin, L., Ferrante, C. & Grădinaru, E. - European Triassic coelacanths: new
occurrence and the impact on the evolutionary history of the group
11.40-12.00 - Choi, S., Csiki-Sava, Z., Moreno-Azanza, M., Prondvai, E. & Lee, Y.-N. - The
lizard "pseudo-extinction" that was not - EBSD analysis reveals true affinities of a
widespread Late Cretaceous eggshell type from Europe
12.00-12.20 - Csiki-Sava, Z., Vremir, M., Meng, J., Brusatte, S. L. & Norell, M. A. - Being
(relatively) simpleminded – how does is work for you? A weird new multituberculate from
the Upper Cretaceous of Romania adds to the list of peculiar island adaptations known in
vertebrates
12.20-12.40 - Dyke, G., Laurent, C. & Lendvai, A. - The evolution of bird feathers: New and old
evidence from the fossil record
12.40-13.00 - Laurent, C. & Dyke, G. - The rediscovery of Burmite and it’s palaeontological
significance for understanding the development of Avian flight in the mid-Cretaceous
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13.00-15.30 – Lunch break
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15.30-15.50 - Vasile, Ș., Drăgușin, V., Petculescu, A., Constantin, S., Sava, T.B. & Sava, G.O. -
Preliminary data on the Late Pleistocene-Holocene herpetofaunal fossil assemblages from
Stoieni Cave (Mehedinți Mountains, Romania)
15.50-16.10 - Țibuleac, P. - New data about the Early Jurassic nautiloids of Prașca Klippe (Rarău
Syncline, Eastern Carpathians, Romania)
16.10-16.30 - Ionesi, V., Grădianu, I., Copilaș-Ciocianu, D., Loghin, S., Mare, S., Dumitriu, S.-
D. & Matei, C. - New data on the fossil fauna from the Cryptomactra Formation reveals
unexpected diversity
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16.30-17.00 – Coffee break
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17.00-17.20 – Iamandei, E. & Iamandei, S. - New identified trees in the late Cretaceous Petrified
Forest from Mureș corridor, Apuseni Mts, Romania
17.20-17.40 – Iamandei, S., Iamandei, E., Velitzelos, D. & Velitzelos, E. - Palaeoxylotomical
studies in the Cenozoic Petrified Forests of Greece. Part two-conifers
17.40-18.00 - Akkemik, Ü. & Çelik, H. - Petrified wood identifications from Turkey and their
evaluations
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18.30-21 – Icebreaking party _________________________________________________________________________________
September 20, 2019
9.00-10.40 - Oral presentations
E. Stoicovici room 9.00-9.20 - Botka, D., Csoma, V., Tóth, E., Šujan, M., Braucher, R., Sant, K., Baranyi, V., Ćorić,
S., Bartha, I. R., Magyar, I., & Silye, L. - Integrated stratigraphic results on the lower
Pannonian (upper Miocene) sediments in the Transylvanian Basin (Romania)
.2 - . - Filipescu S., Szekely F. S., Bindiu Haitonic R. & Pașcalău P. - Discussion on the
stratigraphic position of the upper Oligocene to middle Miocene shallow marine sediments
in the noth-western Transylvanian Basin, based on fossil foraminifera
9.40-10.00 - Cociuba I. & Papp D. - Preliminary note on the post- Middle Miocene evolution and
structural model of the NW part of the Transylvanian Basin
10.00-10.20 – Cociuba, I. - Pre-Middle Miocene in the Cluj-Napoca area
10.20-10.40 – Silye, L., Kövecsi, Sz.-A., Less, Gy., Bindiu Haitonic, R., Pleș, G., Zágoršek, K.,
Bălc, R., Filipescu, S., Barabás, E. & Jakab, A. - New insights on the middle Eocene
nummulitic accumulations from the Transylvanian Basin
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10.40-11.20 - Coffee break
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11.20-12.40 – Oral presentations
E. Stoicovici room 11.20-11.40 - Ilieș, I. A., Oltean, G., Bindiu Haitonic, R. & Filipescu, S. - Reconstructing the
palaeoambiental parameters of the Middle Miocene of the Hațeg Basin with the use of
fossil foraminifera assemblages and statistical methods
11.40-12.00 - Ruskal, A., Diaconu, A., Grindean, R., Panait, A. & Tanțău, I. - Quantitative
hydroclimate reconstruction between 12,7-6,2 ka BP from the Apuseni Mountains
12.00-12.20 - Mircescu, C.V., Bucur, I.I., Ghionea, Ș & Popa, G.L. - Facies associations and
microfossils from the Middle-Upper Triassic limestones of Perșani Mountains (Eastern
Carpathians, Romania)
12.20-12.40 – Pleș, G., Schlagintweit, F., Lazăr, I., Bucur, I.I., Săsăran, E. & Grădinaru, M. -
Calcified sponge assemblage in Upper Jurassic carbonates of the eastern Getic Carbonate
Platform (Southern Carpathians, Romania). Palaeoecology, microfacies analysis and reef
zonation
12.40-13.00 - Bucur, I.I., Sudar, M.N., Schlagintweit, F., Polavder, S., Săsăran, E., Jovanovic, D.
& Pleş, G. - The lowermost Cretaceous from the western part of Carpatho-Balkanides
(Eastern Serbia): the Kamenica section
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12.40-15.00 – Lunch break
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15.00-16.00 – Poster presentations (1 to 16)
1. Anton, M.E. & Melinte-Dobrinescu, M.C. - Black Sea Pleistocene to Holocene
palaeoenvironmental changes based on calcareous nannoplankton fluctuation pattern
2. Antoniade C., Crusoveanu (Rusu) S. & Stoica M. - Senonian microfauna from South Dobrogea
3. Bălc R., Bercea R.-I. & Tămaș A. - Integrated biostratigraphy, sedimentology and structural
geology of the internal Pucioasa-Fusaru lithofacies (Pucioasa, Carpathian Bend Zone,
Romania)
4. Bindiu Haitonic, R., Kövecsi, S-A., Pleș, G., Bălc, R., Barabás, E., Jakab., A., Veciunca , A.,
Filipescu, S. & Silye, L. - Assemblages of smaller foraminifera associated with the
nummulites banks of the Transylvanian Basin (Romania): palaeoecological remarks
5. Bozukov, V. & Ivanov, D. - New palaeobotanical data from the Pernik Coal Basin (W
Bulgaria)
6. Chira, C. M., Aroldi., C., Bindiu Haitonic, R., Popa, M.V., Juravle, D.T. & Dromereschi, P. -
The Oligocene – Miocene micropaleontological assemblages and sedimentological data
from Moldoviţa Basin (Bucovina)
7. Diaconu, A.-C., Gałka, M., Feurdean, A., Panait, A., Ruskal, A. & Tanţău, I. - Last millennium
hydroclimate evolution in Eastern Carpathians, Romania
8. Diaconu, A.-C., Tanţău, I., Grindean, R., Ruskal, A. & Feurdean, A. - South-eastern Europe
(Romania) fire patterns of a grassland ecosystem during the Holocene
9. Dragoş, A.-G. - A review of the flight adaptations in the paravian group of dinosaurs and the
ambiguous transition between birds (Aves) and theropods
10. Haiduc, B.-S., Brânzilă, M., Răţoi, B.G. & Păun, E.-I. - Dental microwear texture analysis -
"New Data from Old Fosils"
11. Hoan, D.T., Săsăran, E., Bucur, I.I., Bia, T. & Oprișa, A. - Upper Jurassic – Lower
Cretaceous limestone from Mănăstirii valley – Întregalde Gorge zone (Trascău mountains):
microfacies and depositional environments
12. Juravle, D.-T., Ursu, A., Chelariu, C., Juravle, V. - Lithofacial and tectono-structural reflex in
post-Moldavian morphogenesis from Obcina Mare (Eastern Carpathians)
13. Kövecsi, S.-A., Pleș, G., Bindiu Haitonic, R., Less, G. & Silye, L. - Eocene larger benthic
foraminiferal accumulations from Albești Limestone: microfacies analysis and
paleoecological implications
14. Lázár, B. & Silye, L. - Lower Sarmatian foraminiferal assemblages from the NW border of
the Transylvanian Basin
15. Loghin, S., Dumitriu, S.D., Seserman, A. & Brânzilă, M. - Biostratigraphy and paleoecology
of the Sarmatian deposits (Middle Miocene) from Ciofoaia section
16. Oprișa, A., Pleș, G., Bucur, I.I., Săsăran, E. & Mircescu, C.V. - Microfacies and
micropaleontological assemblages in Upper Jurassic limestones from Fundătura Ponorului
(Hațeg-Pui Zone, Romania)
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16.00-16.30 – Coffee break
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16.30 – 17.00 – Poster presentations (17 to 24)
17. Pașcalău, P., Bindiu Haitonic, R., Filipescu, S. & Szekely, F.S. - Palaeoecological
interpretations on the Racăș section (Transylvanian Basin, Romania), based on fossil
foraminifera assemblages 18. Păun, E.-I., Ursachi, L., Rățoi, B.G., Brânzilă, M., Haiduc, B.-S., Guy, F., Daver, G. & Badea, D.-D. -
Equidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the late Miocene of Pogana (Scythian Platform,
Romania) 19. Pleș, G. & Gawlick, H.-J. - Strâmtura Valley section of the Codru Nappe System revisited. An
example of the mid-Carnian drowning of the Wetterstein Carbonate Platform (Apuseni Mts.,
Romania)
20. Popescu, A. - Scapula and coxal of Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) from Leu, SW of Romania
21. Rățoi, B.G., Ursachi, L., Brânzilă, M., Haiduc, B.S., Păun, E.I., Badea, D., Guy, F. & Daver, G. -
Rhinocerotidae and Chalicotheriidae (Perissodactyla, Tapiromorpha) from the Late Miocene of
Pogana (Scythian Platform, Romania)
22. Săsăran, L., Bălc, R., Săsăran, E. & Țuțuianu, M. - Biostratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous shallow-
marine deposits from Misea Hill, Roşia basin, Apuseni Mountains, Romania
23. Schlagintweit, F. & Bucur, I.I. - Cantabriconus? meridionalis n. sp., a new orbitoliniform benthic
foraminifera from the Barremian of the Reşita–Moldova Nouă zone, Romania
24. Țabără, D., Tudor, E. & Chelariu, C. - Palynology and palynofacies of Devonian – Carboniferous
deposits from the Eastern part of the Moesian Platform (Romania)
NOTE: For poster presentation we ask the authors to prepare one slide. Three minutes are reserved
for each poster presentation.
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17.00-19.00 – S.P.R. General Assembly
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19.30-22 – Symposium dinner
Post-symposium fieldtrip THE EOCENE FROM THE NW TRANSYLVANIAN BASIN Date: September 21 Leaders: Ioan I. Bucur, Emanoil Săsăran and George Pleş Duration: 1 day. Departure: Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Geology, 1 M. Kogălniceanu str. (in front of the main entrance), 21th September 2019 (Saturday), 08:30 a.m. Return: same day, ~06:00 p.m. Transportation: Bus. Personal insurance: Not included in the fee; participants should have their own travel insurance. Description: Stop 1 – Letca Quarry. – Upper Eocene-lower Oligocene bio-constructed and bio-accumulated
limestones. Coralgal bioconstructions consist of bafflestones built-up by flat or dendriform coral
colonies. Ecological sequences can be recognized within these bioconstructions, with flat coral
colonies in the base encrusted by red algae, followed by dendriform corals associated with red
algae. Stop 2 – Cuciulat-Băbeni Quarry. The limestones from the ―Marble‖ quarry are mined as
ornamental building stones. The ―Marble‖ quarry from Cuciulat is located at about 1 km from
Băbeni village. Bioaccumulated and bioconstructed facies types have been identified. Stops 3 – Botanical Garden Jibou. The botanical garden of Jibou has a rich dendrological fund
of exotic plants. The basic dendrological sector dates back to 1781 and contains numerous and
valuable species The greenhouses contain various and valuable tropical, subtropical and
Mediterranean collections, the plants being grouped systematically or ecologically. The garden
also has an aquarium for tropical plant collections, a huge sector of ornamental plants, herbarium
and museum pieces.
Stop 4 - Price: 25 euro (including transport and lunch). Contact Ioan Bucur E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +40 751 301086 Liana Săsăran E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +40 741 792255
Further information about the 12th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology will be available on the SPR web page http://geo-paleontologica.org/en/forthcoming-events/ on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Romanian-Society-of-Palaeontologists-1217880801568436/)
IMPORTANT NOTICE for SPR Members! The General Assembly of the RSP Members will be held during the 12th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology, on September 20th, 2019, 5.00 p.m. The meeting is essential
for the activity of the Society of Romanian Palaeontologists, according to the new RSP statute
and internal regulations. During the General Assembly of the RSP Members, the new leadership
of the RSP will be elected.
ANEX 1 Hotel’s
name
Address Web Page E-mail Prices per
night
Hotel
Universitas
7 Pandurilor Street,
Cluj-Napoca
Contact: Tel. +40 264 429 788
For reservation plase contact
[email protected] before first of June
2019
130 RON
Grand Hotel
Napoca
1 Octavian Goga
Street, Cluj-Napoca
Contact: (+40) 264
580 715
http://hotelnapoca.ro/ reception@hot
elnapoca.ro
392 RON
Hotel
Capitolina
City Chic
35 Victor Babes,
Cluj Napoca,
Contact: 0264 450
490
http://www.hotel-
capitolina.ro/ro/form/cont
act.html
office@hotel-
capitolina.ro
310 RON
Siago Hotel 33 Republicii, Cluj
Napoca; Contact:
0264422422
http://vilasiago.ro/ http://vilasiago
.ro/contact_en.
php
262 RON
Hotel Fullton 8 Sextil Puscariu
Street, Cluj
Napoca; Contact:
0264597766
http://hotelfullton.ro/ office@hotelf
ullton.ro
230 RON
Lucas
Apartments
10 Fortaretei Street,
Cluj Napoca;
Contact:
0732405533
https://lucashotel.ro/ lucasaparthotel
@gmail.com
228 RON
Hotel
Transilvania
20 Regele
Ferdinand Street,
Cluj Napoca;
Contact:
0264594492
https://www.hoteltransilv
aniacluj.ro/
reception@hot
eltransilvaniac
luj.ro
220 RON
Hotel
Victoria
54-56 B-dul 21
Decembrie, Cluj
Napoca; Contact:
0264 597963
http://www.hotelvictoriac
luj.ro/contact.html
office@hotelvic
toriacluj.ro
200 RON
Hotel
Melody
Central
29 Piata Unirii,
Cluj Napoca;
Contact:
0264597465
http://centralmelody.com/
en/
rezervari@cen
tralmelody.co
m
190 RON
Hotel Meteor 29 Bulevardul
Eroilor Street, Cluj-
Napoca; Contact:
(+04) 264 591 060
http://www.hotelmeteor.r
o/index.php/ro/despre-
hotel-cluj
hotelmeteorclu
190 RON
Hotel Agape 6 Iuliu Maniu,
Street, Cluj
Napoca; Contact:
0264406523
http://hotelagape.ro/s/ reception@hot
elagape.ro
180 RON
Studio
Arhica
5 Avram Iancu
Street, Cluj
Napoca; Contact:
https://www.booking.com
/hotel/ro/studio-
https://www.b
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167.23 RON
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