Felsőtárkány 1: MN 9, Hungary
collected by Janos Hír 1999–??

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Scincidae
Chalcides sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 element
1 dentary (MMP 2009.802)
Reptilia - Gekkonidae
Gekkonidae indet. Gray 1825
1 element
1 maxilla (MMP 2009.631)
Reptilia - Anguidae
Ophisaurus cf. spinari Klembara 1979
235 elements
1 parietal (MMP 2009.645), 2 frontals (MMP 2009.646/1 and 2), 2 maxillae (MMP 2009.647/1 and 2), 170 osteoderms (MMP 2009.648/1 to 170), 60 vertebrae (MMP 2009.649/1 to 60)
Anguis cf. fragilis Linneaus 1758
61 elements
1 frontal (MMP 2009.642), 40 osteoderms (MMP 2009.643/1 to 40), 20 vertebrae (MMP 2009.644/1 to 20)
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Lacertidae informal indet. sp. 1 Bonaparte 1831
40 elements
4 frontals (MMP 2009.635/1 to 4), 1 premaxilla (MMP 2009.636), 14 maxillae (MMP 2009.637/1 to 14), 21 dentaries (MMP 2009.638/1 to 21)
Lacertidae informal indet. sp. 2 Bonaparte 1831
9 elements
4 frontals (MMP 2009.634/1 to 3 and 2009.639), 1 premaxilla (MMP 2009.640), 4 dentaries (MMP 2009.641/1 to 4)
Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758
5 elements
4 maxillae (MMP 2009.632/1 to 4), 1 dentary (MMP 2009.633)
Reptilia
Scolecophidia indet. Duméril and Bibron 1844
14 elements
14 trunk vertebrae (MMP 2009.650/1 to 14)
Reptilia - Viperidae
Viperidae indet. Oppel 1811
5 elements
5 venom fangs (MMP 2009.655/1 to 5)
Reptilia - Crotalidae
Vipera informal sp. (Vipera berus complex) Laurenti 1768
1 element
1 fragmentary vertebra (MMP 2009.654)
Reptilia - Colubridae
Zamenis sp. Wagler 1830
1 element
1 vertebra (MMP 2009.651)
Colubrinae informal indet. sp. 2 Oppel 1811
2 elements
2 vertebrae (MMP 209.652/1 and 2); "minute"
Natrix sp. Laurenti 1768
1 element
1 badly damaged vertebra (MMP 2009.653), "mostly resembling N. rudabanyaensis"
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Latonia gigantea Lartet 1851
27 elements
1 frontoparietal (MMP 2009.618), 5 maxillae (MMP 2009.619/1 to 5), 6 angulosplenials (MMP 2009.620/1 to 6), 2 atlases (MMP 2009.621/1 and 2), 2 urostyles (MMP 2009.622/1 and 2), 1 scapula (MMP 2009.623), 3 humeri (MMP 2009.624/1 to 3), 7 ilia (MMP 2009.625/1 to 7)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pelobatidae
Pelobates cf. sanchizi
11 elements
5 maxillae (MMP 2009.626/1 to 5), 2 presacral vertebrae (MMP 2009.627/1 and 2), 2 sacral vertebrae (MMP 2009.627/3 and 4), 2 ilia (MMP 2009.628/1 and 2)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Hylidae
Hyla cf. arborea (Linnaeus 1758)
11 elements
original and current combination Rana arborea
1 angulosplenial (MMP 2009.629), 10 ilia (MMP 2009.630/1 to 10)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Salamandrina sp. Fitzinger 1826
2 elements
2 precaudal vertebrae (MMP 2009.616/1 and 2)
Lissotriton cf. rohrsi
4 elements
4 vertebrae (MMP 2009.617/1 to 4)
see common names

Geography
Country:Hungary State/province:Heves County:Eger
Coordinates: 48.0° North, 20.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.6° North, 20.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:MN 9
Age range of interval:11.10000 - 9.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Felsőtárkány 1 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green unlithified claystone
Secondary lithology:yellow unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "green clays bedded in yellow sands" Venczel & Hír (2013)
Environment:fluvial-deltaic indet.
Geology comments: "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).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peroxide,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.500 Maximum sieve size:0.800
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Janos Hír Collection dates:1999–20??
Collection method comments: "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).
Metadata
Also known as:FT 1, Felsotarkany 1
Database number:168177
Authorizer:J. Mueller Enterer:T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-04-17 10:55:18 Last modified:2015-04-19 19:01:36
Access level:the public Released:2015-04-17 10:55:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
55074. 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]