Villány, road-cut, layer 5: Carnian, Hungary
collected 2012
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
(Lamarck 1801)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| VER 2013.26, 27, 28 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Archosauriformes indet.
Gauthier 1986
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| VER 2013.30.1-4 | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
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Actinopteri indet.
Cope 1871
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9 specimens | |||||||||
| VER 2013.25.2-10 | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
- Pycnodontidae
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? Sphaerodus sp.
Agassiz 1833
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| VER 2013.25.1 | ||||||||||
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Saurichthyiformes
- Saurichthyidae
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? Saurichthys sp.
Agassiz 1834
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14 specimens | |||||||||
| VER 2013.29.1-14 | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
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Chondrichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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6 specimens | |||||||||
| VER 2013.24.1-6 | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus sp.
Agassiz 1834
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126 specimens | |||||||||
| VER 2013.22.1-126 | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
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Lissodus sp.
Brough 1935
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12 specimens | |||||||||
| VER 2013.21.2-12 | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Acrodontidae
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? Palaeobates sp.
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45 specimens | |||||||||
| VER 2013.23.2-46 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Hungary |
| Coordinates: | 45.9° North, 18.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 7.8° North, 25.1° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
| Stage: | Carnian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Carnian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 237.00000 - 227.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mészhegy Sandstone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The palynomorph association includes Patinasporites densus, Infernopollenties sp., Aratrisporites spp., Ovalipollis spp., and Triadispora spp. indicating a Carnian age. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green lithified sandstone |
| Lithology description: Weakly cemented, usually grayish, yellowish, purplish or greenish sandstone, siltstone and reddish, purplish or variegated clay strata, with subordinate amounts of grayish dolomite and yellowish dolomarl. | |
| Environment: | paralic indet. |
| Geology comments: This phytoclast assemblage indicates a nearshore, proximal depositional environment characterized by a high input of land-derived organic particles. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 2012 |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Hungarian Natural History Museum (MTM) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 156154 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-05-09 15:12:26 | Last modified: | 2014-05-09 15:28:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-05-09 15:12:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 51126. | 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] |