TY - JOUR AU - Román, Zsófia AU - Segesdi, Martin AU - Sebe, Krisztina AU - Földes, Tamás AU - Bakrač, Koraljka AU - Virág, Attila AU - Botfalvai, Gábor TI - Palaeontological and taphonomical investigations of the exceptionally rich concentration of Miocene vertebrate coprolites from Pécs-Danitzpuszta (Hungary, Mecsek Mts.) JF - HISTORICAL BIOLOGY J2 - HIST BIOL PY - 2024 PG - 16 SN - 0891-2963 DO - 10.1080/08912963.2024.2324435 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34728890 ID - 34728890 N1 - Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Paleontology, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary Department of Paleontology and Geology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary HUN-REN-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Paleontology, Budapest, Hungary TOMOGEO Kft, Szolnok, Hungary Department of Geology, Croatian Geological Survey, Zagreb, Croatia Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary Institute of Earth Sciences, Department of Mineralogy & Geology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Export Date: 18 March 2024 Correspondence Address: Román, Z.; Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, Hungary; email: zsofia.m.roman@gmail.com AB - Thousands of coprolites have been collected from the Upper Miocene (Tortonian/Pannonian) sands of the Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit, one of the most important mixed Neogene vertebrate localities in Hungary. Although, the locality has been known for centuries, the coprolites have not been investigated in detail. We describe these fossils and explore their palaeoecological significance. Coprolites were examined with thin sections, X-ray powder diffraction and computed tomography. Their surface is mostly smooth, desiccation cracks were not observed. All coprolites mainly consist of apatite, indicating most probably a carnivorous diet. No evidence of herbivory has been found so far. The coprolites contain remains belonging to several groups: ostracod carapaces, bivalve shells, vertebrae from bony fishes, fish scales, as well as teeth. The CT scans show inhomogeneities in the matrix; however, in most cases they do not reliably indicate inclusions. The taphonomical features suggest rapid burial and most likely an aquatic origin. The spiral morphotype could be attributed to fishes with spiral intestinal valves. Teeth of reef-associated fish taxa indicate Badenian age for some specimens, though the coprolite assemblage might include older and younger specimens as well. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Magyar, János AU - Csiki-Sava, Zoltán AU - Ősi, Attila AU - Augustin, Felix J. AU - Botfalvai, Gábor TI - Rhabdodontid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) diversity suggested by the first documented occurrence of associated cranial and postcranial material at Vălioara (uppermost Cretaceous Densuș-Ciula Formation, Hațeg Basin, Romania) JF - CRETACEOUS RESEARCH J2 - CRETACEOUS RES VL - 156 PY - 2024 SN - 0195-6671 DO - 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105810 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34472680 ID - 34472680 N1 - Export Date: 23 January 2024 Correspondence Address: Csiki-Sava, Z.; Department of Geology, 1 Nicolae Bălcescu Avenue, Romania; email: zoltan.csiki@g.unibuc.ro Correspondence Address: Magyar, J.; ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Hungary; email: magyar.janos@ttk.elte.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Páll-Gergely, Barna AU - Magyar, János AU - Csiki-Sava, Zoltán AU - Botfalvai, Gábor TI - Ferussina petofiana sp. n. (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae), the oldest representative of its subfamily from the Late Cretaceous of Romania JF - ACTA ZOOLOGICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE J2 - ACTA ZOOLOG ACAD SCI HUNG VL - 69 PY - 2023 IS - 4 SP - 337 EP - 352 PG - 16 SN - 1217-8837 DO - 10.17109/AZH.69.4.337.2023 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34189703 ID - 34189703 N1 - Plant Protection Institute, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Herman Ottó út 15, Budapest, H-1022, Hungary Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Paleontology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Department of Geology, Mineralogy and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest, 1 N. Bălcescu Blvd, Bucharest, 010041, Romania Department of Palaeontology and Geology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross utca 13, Budapest, H-1088, Hungary HUN-REN–MTM–ELTE Research Group for Paleontology, P.O. Box 137, Budapest, H-1431, Hungary Export Date: 10 November 2023 AB - The terrestrial gastropod Ferussina petofiana Páll-Gergely sp. n. is described from uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) deposits from the Haţeg Basin, Romania. It represents the first properly diagnosed and described snail taxon from these deposits, despite numerous earlier reports of gastropod occurrences. This new species is characterized by a depressed, mostly smooth shell, three spiral carinae on the ventral side (inside the umbilicus), and an upward-turning aperture. The last feature characterizes two European fossil snail genera, the cyclophoroidean Ferussina, and the stylommatophoran Strophostomella. The new species is classified in the former group due to its nearly circular aperture, and the presence of conspicuous spiral carinae. In contrast, the aperture of most stylommatophoran genera (including Strophostomella) is semilunar, and if raised sculptural elements are present, they are mostly radially oriented. The identification of this new taxon in the uppermost Cretaceous of Romania represents an important range extension for the genus Ferussina, and adds it to the brief list of European clades that appear to have survived the mass extinction event at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Magyar, János AU - Csiki-Sava, Z.* AU - Augustin, F.J. AU - Ősi, Attila AU - Botfalvai, Gábor TI - Got the Head and Tail of It? – New ornithopod dinosaur fossils from Vălioara represent the most complete rhabdodontid skeletal association from the Densuș-Ciula Formation (Hațeg Basin) T2 - Abstract Book, Fourteenth Romanian Symposium on Palaeontology PB - Bucharest University Press C1 - Bucharest PY - 2023 SP - 73 EP - 74 PG - 2 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34145426 ID - 34145426 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Csiki-Sava, Z. AU - Budai, S. AU - Magyar, János AU - Botfalvai, Gábor TI - Another Fountain of (Palaeontological) Wealth – preliminary report on a new fossiliferous locality from Fântânele, Vălioara (Hațeg Basin) T2 - Abstract Book, Fourteenth Romanian Symposium on Palaeontology PB - Bucharest University Press C1 - Bucharest PY - 2023 SP - 41 EP - 42 PG - 2 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34145417 ID - 34145417 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kocsis, László AU - Rabi, Márton AU - Ulianov, Alex AU - Cipriani, Anna AU - Farkas, Izabella M. AU - Botfalvai, Gábor TI - Geochemical investigation of the mixed Máriahalom vertebrate fauna at the Paleogene–Neogene boundary in the Central Paratethys: environmental conditions and age constrain JF - SWISS JOURNAL OF PALAEONTOLOGY J2 - SWISS J PALAEON VL - 142 PY - 2023 IS - 1 SN - 1664-2376 DO - 10.1186/s13358-023-00281-7 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34112863 ID - 34112863 N1 - Export Date: 6 September 2023 AB - The fossil vertebrate fauna of Máriahalom contains remains from a wide range of ecologies including terrestrial and aquatic mammals, crocodiles, sharks, and rays among others. All these were found mixed in mollusc-rich, shallow water, coastal deposits. The aim of the study is to trace the origin of the fossils using their rare earth element (REE) content and their respective ecology with stable oxygen isotopic compositions. In addition, marine vertebrates and calcareous marine fossils were analysed for their Sr isotope composition to provide a new age estimate for the locality. The REE content and their distribution in the fossils indicate similar early diagenetic environments and possible contemporaneous fossilization for the entire vertebrate assemblage. Reworked fossils of significantly different age can be excluded. The enamel/enameloid-derived phosphate oxygen isotope composition of selected fossil taxa fit well with previously inferred habitats that include marine, brackish, and terrestrial environments. Notably, the stem-pinniped Potamotherium valletoni is best interpreted as freshwater dweller instead of marine, consistent with the sedimentology of other occurrences. Our novel 87 Sr/ 86 Sr data suggest an Aquitanian age (21.4 ± 0.5 Ma) for the Máriahalom site that is younger than the previously proposed Late Oligocene age based on biostratigraphy (MP28–30 European Mammal Paleogene Reference Levels). An Aquitanian age raises the possibility that the index fossil taxon, the anthracothere mammal Microbunodon minimum , may have vanished earlier in Western Europe than in the Central Paratethys region. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Maria-Raluca, Văcărescu AU - Magyar, János AU - Zoltán, Csiki-Sava AU - Botfalvai, Gábor ED - Estraviz-López, D. ED - Guillaume, A. R. D. ED - Saleiro, de Sousa Barros A. ED - Martino, R. ED - Ribeiro, C. ED - Costa, F. ED - López-Rojas, V. ED - Russo, J. ED - Rotatori, F. M. ED - Pratas, e Sousa J. ED - Conti, S. ED - Riccetto, M. ED - Maréchal, A. TI - Popping Open the Treasure Chest: Palaeontological and Sedimentological Investigations of New Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Vertebrate Fossil Localities from the Vălioara Valley (Densuș-Ciula Formation, Hațeg Basin, Romania) T2 - XXI EJIP / 6th IMERP. Abstracts book. PB - Sociedad Española de Paleontología CY - Teruel SN - 9788409519545 PY - 2023 SP - 107 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34058143 ID - 34058143 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Botfalvai, Gábor AU - Magyar, János AU - Watah, Veronika AU - Szarvas, Imre AU - Szolyák, Péter TI - Large-sized pentadactyl carnivore footprints from the early Miocene fossil track site at Ipolytarnóc (Hungary): 3D data presentation and ichnotaxonomical revision JF - HISTORICAL BIOLOGY J2 - HIST BIOL VL - 35 PY - 2023 IS - 9 SP - 1709 EP - 1725 PG - 17 SN - 0891-2963 DO - 10.1080/08912963.2022.2109967 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33059309 ID - 33059309 N1 - Export Date: 13 December 2022 Correspondence Address: Botfalvai, G.; Department of Palaeontology and Geology, Hungary; email: botfalvai.gabor@gmail.com LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Botfalvai, Gábor AU - Kocsis, László AU - Szabó, Márton AU - Király, Edit AU - Sebe, Krisztina TI - Preliminarily report on rare earth element taphonomy of a Miocene mixed age fossil vertebrate assemblage (Pécs-Danitzpuszta, Mecsek Mts., Hungary): uptake mechanism and possible separation of palaeocommunities JF - HISTORICAL BIOLOGY J2 - HIST BIOL VL - 35 PY - 2023 IS - 4 SP - 498 EP - 517 PG - 20 SN - 0891-2963 DO - 10.1080/08912963.2022.2049771 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32753540 ID - 32753540 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Botfalvai, Gábor TI - Az ipolytarnóci alsó miocén korú lábnyomos lelőhely ragadozónyomainak taxonómiai és paleobiológiai vizsgálata T2 - Intézményi ÚNKP Konferencia 2022 PB - Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE) C1 - Budapest PY - 2022 SP - 230 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33100749 ID - 33100749 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER -