Ancient life
![Figure 2. Reconstruction of Abelisaurid](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Abelisauridae_1.jpg)
Abelisaurid theropod dinosaurs
This small-bodied, 1-2 m long, predatory dinosaur is known on the basis of a few limb bones…
![Head reconstruction of Ajkaceratops](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ajkaceratopshead_new.jpg)
Ajkaceratops kozmai
Ajkaceratops was a plant-eater dinosaur with parrot-beaked skull morphology and probably was a quadropedal animal…
![The reconstruction of Albanerpeton](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/albanerpeton-e1605190810605.jpg)
Albanerpetontid amphibians
Albanerpetontids are salamander-like amphibians, the sister-group of salamanders and frogs and they lived during the Middle Jurassic to the Pliocene…
![Life reconstruction of Allodaposuchus and its environment](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/croc_vs_Abeli.jpg)
Allodaposuchus
Several skull and mandibular elements from Iharkút are assigned to a midsized crocodilian that is relatively widely considered to be closely related…
![Pelvic bones of Bakonybatrachus fedori](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Bakonybatrachus_fedori-.jpg)
Bakonybatrachus fedori
This species belongs to the oldest frog group (Archaeobatrachia) and within that to the family of discoglossid frogs …
![Reconstruction of Bakonydraco galaczi](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bakonydraco_m-1.jpg)
Bakonydraco galaczi
Bakonydraco was an azhdarchid pterosaur, an active flyer with a wing span of 3.5-4 meters…
![Basal Titanosauria Sauropod dinosaur.](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Sauropoda.jpg)
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…
![Reconstruction of Bauxitornites minszentyae](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bauxitornis1.jpg)
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…
![Partial left jaw element (dentary) of Bicuspidon aff. hatzegiensis from Iharkút.](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Bicuspidon.jpg)
Bicuspidon
The most common lizard at the Iharkút site is Bicuspidon aff. hatzegiensis, known from dozens of lower and upper jaws…
![Partial right lower jaw of Chromatogenys tiliquoides (MTM V2010.129.1.) from Iharkút.](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Chromatogenis.jpg)
Chromatogenis
Chromatogenys tiliquoides, described as a new genus and species, is considered relatively rare among the Iharkút lizards…
![Vertebrate coprolites from Iharkút, with different morphologies (scale bar: 5 cm)](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/korpolitok_1.jpg)
Coprolites (fossilized feces) from the Iharkút locality
A large number of coprolites have been found at the Iharkút vertebrate locality during the excavations…
![One of the upper jaws of Distortodon rhomboideus (MTM PAL 2012.31.1.) from Iharkút. Scale bar equals 1 mm.](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Disortodon.jpg)
Disortodon
The lizard Distortodon rhomboideus was described by our research group as a new genus and species…
![Shell and girdle elements of the dortokid turtle from Iharkút](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dortokidae_1.jpg)
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…
![Reconstruction of the Middle Triassic shallow marine fauna of the Villány area, with Nothosaurus and Placodont marine reptiles (Illustration: Tibor Pecsics)](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Eosauropterygia_2.jpg)
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…
![Life reconstruction of Foxemys trabanti.](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Foxemys.jpg)
Foxemys trabanti
Named after the everlasting Trabant 601 cars what used on the field by our research group so many years…
![Two of the still undetermined lizards from Iharkút. A, „Scincomorpha indet. A”; B, „Scincomorpha indet. B”.](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Toredekes_gyikleletek_1.jpg)
Fragmentary lizard fossils
Besides Bicuspidon, Distortodon, Pelsochamops, and Chromatogenys, other lizards were also identified in the Iharkút fossil material…
![Reconstruction of the Iharkút Atractosteus gar (graphic: Tibor Pecsics)](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/agar2.jpg)
Gars (Lepisosteidae)
Gars (Lepisosteidae) are an extant family of actinopterygian fishes, living exclusively on the western hemisphere…
![Pelvic bones of Hungarobatrachus szukacsi](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Hungarobatrachus.jpg)
Hungarobatrachus szukacsi
This frog is the oldest known species of true frogs (Neobatrachia) in Europe…
![](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Hungarosaurus_tormai.jpg)
Hungarosaurus tormai
Hungarosaurus is the best known species in the Iharkút fauna. This quadrupedal, 4-4.5 meter long, plant-eater ankyloaurian dinosaur…
![Reconstruction of Iharkutosuchus](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Iharkuto-Foxemys.jpg)
Iharkutosuchus makadii
Although there are no wild crocodiles in Europe today, there were 4 different species in the Bakony 85 million years ago…
![Life reconstruction of Kallokibotion bajazidi (after Mihai Dumbrava).](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Kallokibotion_1.jpg)
Kallokibotion turtle
This enigmatic turtle is very underrepresented in the fauna and only known by a few shell elements…
![Seed of Padragkutia haasii.](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/keso-kreta-noenyvilag-3.jpg)
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…
![Head reconstruction of Mochlodon](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/rhabdodontidheadfinal.jpg)
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…
![Reconstruction of Pannoniasaurus](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Panoniasaurus_m.jpg)
Pannoniasaurus inexpectatus
Mosasaurs were reptiles belonging to the living group of scaled reptiles (squamates), going extinct at the end of the Cretaceous…
![Partial right lower jaw of Pelsochamops infrequens (MTM 2006.106.1.) from Iharkút. A, as viewed from the inside; B, as viewed from the chewing surface. Scale bar equals 1 mm.](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pelsochamops_1jpg.jpg)
Pelsochamops
The lizard Pelsochamops infrequens is known from Iharkút only from a partial right jaw and two jaw fragments…
![Head reconstruction of Pneumatoraptor fodori](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/pneumato2.jpg)
Pneumatoraptor fodori
Pneumatoraptor is the smallest known predatory (Theropoda) dinosaur in the Iharkút fauna. Based on its fragmentary remains…
![Reconstruction of Tetanuran theropod](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/basal_tetanurae_new.jpg)
Primitive Tetanuran theropods
These 4-5 meter long dinosaurs were the top-predators of the Iharkút land during the Late Cretacoeus…
![Struthiosaurus](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/struthiosaurus_1.jpg)
Struthiosaurus sp.
For a long time it was thought that the Iharkút dinosaur fauna included only one armored dinosaur…
![Theriosuchus](https://magyardinoszaurusz.hu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Theriosuchus_1.jpg)
Theriosuchus
Similarly to Doratodon, this small crocodilian is very rare at Iharkút and its presence has been only identified in the last few years…