Supplementary data on the Middle Miocene (Badenian) fish assemblage of Nyirad (Hungary):
revision and new results on faunal composition and paleoenvironment
In 2016, SzABO & Kocsis reported a diverse Badenian shark and ray fauna from the Nyirad
pit (Hungary). Since then a few chondrichthyan taxa have been eliminated from the
faunal list, and additional taxa (both chondrichthyans and osteichthyans) have been
unearthed at the locality. Some earlier collected chondrichthyan taxa have been revised
(e.g., Araloselachus cuspidatus), while further new chondrichthyan taxa (e.g., Alopias
exigua, Iago angustidens and Rhynchobatus sp.) occurred in the newly collected material.
The recovered osteichthyan remains have been also examined in detail and the material
includes Crenidens sp., Dentex sp., Diplodus sp., Pagrus sp., Sparus sp., Labrodon
sp., Tri gono don jugleri, Acanthurus sp., Sphyraena sp., an indeterminate trichiurid,
and an indeterminate tetraodontiform. The newly assessed fish fauna provides further
information for the Badenian paleoenvironment of the Pusztamiske Formation in the
Nyirad depositional area.