Ancient life
Abelisaurid theropod dinosaurs
This small-bodied, 1-2 m long, predatory dinosaur is known on the basis of a few limb bones…
Ajkaceratops kozmai
Ajkaceratops was a plant-eater dinosaur with parrot-beaked skull morphology and probably was a quadropedal animal…
Albanerpetontid amphibians
Albanerpetontids are salamander-like amphibians, the sister-group of salamanders and frogs and they lived during the Middle Jurassic to the Pliocene…
Allodaposuchus
Several skull and mandibular elements from Iharkút are assigned to a midsized crocodilian that is relatively widely considered to be closely related…
Bakonybatrachus fedori
This species belongs to the oldest frog group (Archaeobatrachia) and within that to the family of discoglossid frogs …
Bakonydraco galaczi
Bakonydraco was an azhdarchid pterosaur, an active flyer with a wing span of 3.5-4 meters…
Basal Titanosaur Sauropod
Based on the findings collected from the Late Cretaceous of Europe, it was assumed that an approximately 22 million years long period…
Bauxitornis mindszentyae
The Iharkút vertebrate locality is among the few places in Europe where the fossils of the very poorly known Cretaceous birds have been also discovered…
Bicuspidon
The most common lizard at the Iharkút site is Bicuspidon aff. hatzegiensis, known from dozens of lower and upper jaws…
Chromatogenis
Chromatogenys tiliquoides, described as a new genus and species, is considered relatively rare among the Iharkút lizards…
Coprolites (fossilized feces) from the Iharkút locality
A large number of coprolites have been found at the Iharkút vertebrate locality during the excavations…
Disortodon
The lizard Distortodon rhomboideus was described by our research group as a new genus and species…
Dortokidae turtles
These turtles are poorly known and only represented by characteristic isolated shell elements. However, they are more common than the remains of Kallokibotion…
Eosauropterygian marine reptiles from the Triassic of Villány
The rock layers of the Middle Triassic Templomhegy Dolomite Member on Somssich Hill (Villány) – which were deposited in a shallow marine environment…
Foxemys trabanti
Named after the everlasting Trabant 601 cars what used on the field by our research group so many years…
Fragmentary lizard fossils
Besides Bicuspidon, Distortodon, Pelsochamops, and Chromatogenys, other lizards were also identified in the Iharkút fossil material…
Gars (Lepisosteidae)
Gars (Lepisosteidae) are an extant family of actinopterygian fishes, living exclusively on the western hemisphere…
Hungarobatrachus szukacsi
This frog is the oldest known species of true frogs (Neobatrachia) in Europe…
Hungarosaurus tormai
Hungarosaurus is the best known species in the Iharkút fauna. This quadrupedal, 4-4.5 meter long, plant-eater ankyloaurian dinosaur…
Iharkutosuchus makadii
Although there are no wild crocodiles in Europe today, there were 4 different species in the Bakony 85 million years ago…
Kallokibotion turtle
This enigmatic turtle is very underrepresented in the fauna and only known by a few shell elements…
Late Cretaceous flora of Iharkút
85 million years is a great time not only the fauna had time to undergo a complete change from the world of dinosaurs…
Mochlodon vorosi
Mochlodon, with a body length no longer than 2 meters, was one of the smallest within the clade of rhabodontid ornithopod dinosaurs endemic to Europe…
Pannoniasaurus inexpectatus
Mosasaurs were reptiles belonging to the living group of scaled reptiles (squamates), going extinct at the end of the Cretaceous…
Pelsochamops
The lizard Pelsochamops infrequens is known from Iharkút only from a partial right jaw and two jaw fragments…
Pneumatoraptor fodori
Pneumatoraptor is the smallest known predatory (Theropoda) dinosaur in the Iharkút fauna. Based on its fragmentary remains…
Primitive Tetanuran theropods
These 4-5 meter long dinosaurs were the top-predators of the Iharkút land during the Late Cretacoeus…
Struthiosaurus sp.
For a long time it was thought that the Iharkút dinosaur fauna included only one armored dinosaur…
Theriosuchus
Similarly to Doratodon, this small crocodilian is very rare at Iharkút and its presence has been only identified in the last few years…