Also known as FF 2/3, Felsotarkany-Felnemet 2/3
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 2/3, together with FF 2/7, 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; unlithified, gray, muddy claystone
•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).
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 168132: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 17.04.2015, edited by Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Latonia gigantea Lartet 1851 painted frog 2 frontoparietals (MMP 2009.513/1 to 2), 12 maxillae (MMP 2009.514/1 to 12), 6 angulosplenials (MMP 2009.515/1 to 6), 1 atlas (MMP 2009.516), 5 presacral vertebrae (MMP 2009.517/1 to 5). 2 sacral vertebrae (MMP 2009.518/1 and 2), 4 humeri (MMP 2009.519/1 to 4), 8 ilia (MMP 2009.520/1 to 8)
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Reptilia | |
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle | |
Lacertidae "indet. sp. 1" Bonaparte 1831 squamates 2 frontals (MMP 2009.536/1 and 2), 10 maxillae (MMP 2009.548/1 to 10), 45 dentaries (MMP 2009.537/1 and 2, 2009.549/1 to 3, and 2009.550/1 to 40), 1 premaxilla (MMP 2009.551)
Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates 10 maxillae (MMP 2009.543/1 to 10), 7 dentaries (MMP 2009.544/1 to 7), 1 jugal (MMP 2009.545), 1 pterygoid (MMP 2009.546), 1 frontal (MMP 2009.547)
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Anguis cf. fragilis Linneaus 1758 Slow worm 1 frontal (MMP 2009.806), 2 maxillae (MMP 2009.528/1 and 2), 2 dentaries (MMP 2009.529/1 and 2), 4 vertebrae (MMP 2009.530/1 to 4), 4 osteoderms (MMP 2009.531/1 to 4)
Ophisaurus cf. spinari Klembara 1979 glass lizard 5 parietals 2009.532/1 to 5), 2 frontals (MMP 2009.533/1 and 2), 4 maxillae (MMP 2009.534/1 to 4), 3 dentaries (MMP 2009.535/1 to 3), 127 osteoderms (MMP 2009.538/1 and 2 as well as 2009.539/3 to 125), 40 vertebrae (MMP 2009.540/1 to 40)
Pseudopus sp. Merrem 1820 legless lizard 2 vertebrae (MMP 2009.541/1 and 2), 1 osteoderm (MMP 2009.542)
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Chalcides augei Čerňanský et al. 2019 skink 1 frontal (MMP 2009.527), 3 fragmentary dentaries (MMP 2009.552 and 2009.553/1 and 2)
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