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Late Cretaceous landscape with ankylosaurs and pteranosaurs from a newly discovered dinosaur fossil site in Hungary.
A Late Cretaceous coal mine at Iharkút in Hungary is a rich source of fossil bones of dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles, pteranosaurs, birds, and others. Unique in Middle Europe for its high diversity, the fossils of this site were discovered by the young paleontologist Attila Osi in 2000.
The National Geographic Hungary magazin published an article about this interesting fauna in 2006, illustrated by seven color paintings by Emese Kazár.
This, and the following pictures were published in:
National Geographic Hungary, 2006/3: 38-51. |
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A rhabdodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Iharkút, Hungary.
The reconstruction of this plant-eating dinosaur was kindly superwised by Dr. David B. Weishampel (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA). It was mainly based on a closely related species (Weishampel et al. 2003, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1(2): 65-123).
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An early bird
The limb bones of Late Cretaceous enantiornithid birds were found at Iharkút. This reconstruction is mainly hypothetical, and was superwised in part by Dr. Luis M. Chiappe (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, USA). |
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Bakonydraco OSI, the Late Cretaceous pteranosaur from Iharkút. |
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An early crocodile from Iharkút.
This reconstruction was based on a very well-preserved skull.
Scientific supervision: Prof. Dr. Éric Buffetaut (Paris). |
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