Ancient life

The only fossils unearthed of these small crocodilians are a few skull and lower jaw elements and isolated teeth…

The lizard Distortodon rhomboideus was described by our research group as a new genus and species…

Chromatogenys tiliquoides, described as a new genus and species, is considered relatively rare among the Iharkút lizards…

The most common lizard at the Iharkút site is Bicuspidon aff. hatzegiensis, known from dozens of lower and upper jaws…

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…

Bakonydraco was an azhdarchid pterosaur, an active flyer with a wing span of 3.5-4 meters…

This species belongs to the oldest frog group (Archaeobatrachia) and within that to the family of discoglossid frogs …

Several skull and mandibular elements from Iharkút are assigned to a midsized crocodilian that is relatively widely considered to be closely related…

Albanerpetontids are salamander-like amphibians, the sister-group of salamanders and frogs and they lived during the Middle Jurassic to the Pliocene…

Ajkaceratops was a plant-eater dinosaur with parrot-beaked skull morphology and probably was a quadropedal animal…