PBDB Collection

Felsőtárkány-Felnémet 2/7 (Miocene of Hungary)

Also known as FF 2/7, Felsotarkany-Felnemet 2/7

Where: Heves, Hungary (47.9° N, 20.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN 7 + 8 (12.8 - 11.1 Ma)

• Felsőtárkány-Felnémet 2/7, together with FF 2/3, occupies the lowest stratigraphic position among the localities reported by Venczel & Hír (2013). Hutchinson & Begun (2006, Geophys. Res. Abstr. 8) assign the lower beds of the fossiliferous Miocene succession above the tuff bed of the Galgavölgi Fm. (dated 13.7±0.8 Ma) to the Kozárd Fm., but Vencel & Hír (2013) do not give a stratigraphic column and do not mention any lithostratigraphic unit.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithified, fine-grained, gray sandstone

• "The sedimentary succession [of the late Middle and early Upper Miocene in the Felsőtárkány area] is considered likely to correspond to a river-dominated delta-top, with the basal association marking an interdistributary bay environment, which becomes paludal as water level falls. Initial distal floodplain deposition is followed by more proximal sandstone deposits due to progradation of the delta southwards from the uplifted Bükk Mountains, and possible channel avulsion on the delta-top.

•Felsőtárkány is effectively situated on a palaeo-coastline during the late middle Miocene and early late Miocene. The transition from Sarmatian near-shore, shallow water and nearby upper Badenian to Sarmatian reef facies to younger delta-top floodplain facies may indicate the initiation of the final Miocene regression from this area of the Pannonian Basin." (Hutchinson & Begun, 2006).

• "fine grey sandstones" Venczel & Hír (2013)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by Janos Hír in 1999–20??

Collection methods: peroxide, sieve,

• "The fossils resulted from about 21 tones [sic!] of fossiliferous sediments processed from the Felsőtárkány-Felnémet and Felsőtárkány localities (see Hír 2006). In the field, the samples were air dried and soaked in water with H₂O₂ and washed repetitively using a series of screens with mashes [sic!] of 0.8 and 0.6 or 0.5 mm. [...] The finds are stored at the Municipal Museum of Pásztó (MMP)." (Venczel & Hír, 2013).

Primary reference: M. Venczel and J. Hír. 2013. Amphibians and Squamates from the Miocene of Felsőtárkány Basin, N-Hungary. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Paleozoology – Stratigraphy 300(1–6):117-158 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168164: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 17.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Squamata - Anguidae	Pseudopus sp., Ophisaurus cf. spinari Pseudopus sp. Merrem 1820 legless lizard 2 maxillae (MMP 2009.568/1 and 2), 1 vertebra (MMP 2009.569), 4 osteoderms (MMP 2009.570/1 to 4) Ophisaurus cf. spinari Klembara 1979 glass lizard 20 osteoderms (MMP 2009.566/1 to 20), 1 vertebra (MMP 2009.567)
Squamata - Lacertidae	Lacertidae "indet. sp. 1" Lacertidae "indet. sp. 1" Bonaparte 1831 squamates 2 parietals (MMP 2009.571/1 and 2), 2 dentaries (MMP 2009.572/1 and 2)
Squamata - Colubridae	Natrix cf. rudabanyaensis, Hierophis cf. hungaricus Natrix cf. rudabanyaensis water snake 1 vertebra (MMP 2009.574) Hierophis cf. hungaricus colubrid snake 1 vertebra (MMP 2009.573)
Amphibia
Salientia - Pelodytidae	Pelodytes cf. caucasicus Pelodytes cf. caucasicus Boulenger 1896 Caucasus parsley frog 1 ilium (MMP 2009.565)
Salientia -	Latonia gigantea Latonia gigantea Lartet 1851 frog 2 frontoparietals (MMP 2009.558 and 2009.559), 7 maxillae (MMP 2009.560/1 to 7), 9 angulosplenials (MMP 2009.561/1 to 9), 2 urostyles (MMP 2009.562/1 and 2), 2 humeri (MMP 2009.563/1 and 2), 12 ilia (MMP 2009.564/1 to 12)