A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.)
Iharkút is a Late Cretaceous (Santonian) vertebrate-bearing locality in the Bakony Mountains of western Hungary, where productive and continuous paleontological excavations have been carried out in the last twenty years. Fieldwork resulted in a very rich and diverse assemblage of terrestrial and fre...
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| author | Gabor Botfalvai László Makádi Gáspár Albert Attila Ősi |
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| description | Iharkút is a Late Cretaceous (Santonian) vertebrate-bearing locality in the Bakony Mountains of western Hungary, where productive and continuous paleontological excavations have been carried out in the last twenty years. Fieldwork resulted in a very rich and diverse assemblage of terrestrial and freshwater animals, including fishes, amphibians, turtles, lizards, a freshwater mosasaur, pterosaurs, crocodilians, dinosaurs, and birds. This abundance and diversity of fossil taxa contribute to understanding of European Late Cretaceous continental vertebrate faunas. Furthermore, the site’s paleogeographic position in the western Tethyan archipelago and its Santonian mean that it fills an important gap in the Late Cretaceous record of continental vertebrates in Europe. The locality is among the geological high points of the Bakony-Balaton UNESCO Global Geopark. The fossils are internationally important, which draws the attention of both scientific and non-scientific geopark visitors. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-30b9b4a246c445cb8f6b86f12c888e4c2025-02-03T10:42:37ZengOICC PressGeoconservation Research2645-46612588-73432021-09-014245947010.30486/gcr.2021.1922052.1081684932A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.)Gabor Botfalvai0László Makádi1Gáspár Albert2Attila Ősi3Hungarian Natural History Museum, Ludovika tér 2, Budapest, 1083, HungaryMining and Geological Survey of Hungary, Stefánia út 14, Budapest, 1143, HungaryEötvös Loránd University, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Budapest, Hungary, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Budapest, 1117, HungaryEötvös Loránd University, Department of Paleontology, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, HungaryIharkút is a Late Cretaceous (Santonian) vertebrate-bearing locality in the Bakony Mountains of western Hungary, where productive and continuous paleontological excavations have been carried out in the last twenty years. Fieldwork resulted in a very rich and diverse assemblage of terrestrial and freshwater animals, including fishes, amphibians, turtles, lizards, a freshwater mosasaur, pterosaurs, crocodilians, dinosaurs, and birds. This abundance and diversity of fossil taxa contribute to understanding of European Late Cretaceous continental vertebrate faunas. Furthermore, the site’s paleogeographic position in the western Tethyan archipelago and its Santonian mean that it fills an important gap in the Late Cretaceous record of continental vertebrates in Europe. The locality is among the geological high points of the Bakony-Balaton UNESCO Global Geopark. The fossils are internationally important, which draws the attention of both scientific and non-scientific geopark visitors.http://gcr.khuisf.ac.ir/article_684932_9df64327c6cf988f4053ac00c88a6585.pdfdinosaurgeoparkvertebrate fossilshungarian dinosaur foundationhungarosaurus |
| spellingShingle | Gabor Botfalvai László Makádi Gáspár Albert Attila Ősi A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.) Geoconservation Research dinosaur geopark vertebrate fossils hungarian dinosaur foundation hungarosaurus |
| title | A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.) |
| title_full | A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.) |
| title_fullStr | A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.) |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.) |
| title_short | A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.) |
| title_sort | unique late cretaceous dinosaur locality in the bakony balaton geopark of hungary iharkut bakony mts |
| topic | dinosaur geopark vertebrate fossils hungarian dinosaur foundation hungarosaurus |
| url | http://gcr.khuisf.ac.ir/article_684932_9df64327c6cf988f4053ac00c88a6585.pdf |
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