Villány, construction site (Triassic of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (45.9° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 1.7° N, 28.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Templomhegy Dolomite Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Based on its stratigraphic position its age is probably Ladinian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite

• Thin-bedded, usually grayish-white to yellowish-gray dolomite, marly dolomite or calcareous dolomite and yellowish dolomarl, with clay and silt interlayers.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2012

• Repository: Hungarian Natural History Museum (MTM)

Primary reference: A. Ősi, G. Botfalvai, E. Prondvai, Z. Hajdu, G. Czirják, Z. Szentesi, E. Pozsgai, A. E. Götz, L. Makádi, D. Csengődi, and K. Sebe. 2013. First report of Triassic vertebrate assemblages from the Villány Hills (southern Hungary). Central European Geology 56:297-335 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 156151: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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 Vertebrata -
Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. vertebrate
VER 2013.2 (hollow bone)
Reptilia
 Sauropterygia -
Sauropterygia indet., Nothosauria indet.
Sauropterygia indet. diapsid
VER 2013.12, 17, 18, 20
Nothosauria indet. Baur 1889 nothosaur
VER 2013.3-1, 13, 14, 19, 43
 Placodontia -
Placodontia indet.
Placodontia indet. placodont
VER 2013.16
 Placodontia - Cyamodontidae
cf. Cyamodus sp.
cf. Cyamodus sp. von Meyer 1863 placodont
VER 2013.15
 Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Nothosaurus sp.
Nothosaurus sp. Münster 1834 diapsid
VER 2013.1