Also known as FT 2, Felsotarkany 2

Where: Heves, Hungary (48.0° N, 20.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 20.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN 9 (11.1 - 9.7 Ma)

• Felsőtárkány 2 occupies an intermediate 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. and the upper beds to the Sajóvölgi 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; green claystone

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 168187: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 17.04.2015

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