Mecsek Coal Formation

Mecsek Coal Formation Stratigraphic range: Hettangian-Pliensbachian ~201–183 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Tisza Unit
Underlies	Kcskehát Limestone
Lithology
Primary	Siltstone
Other	Coal
Location
Coordinates	[ ⚑ ] : 46°06′N 18°12′E / 46.1°N 18.2°E / 46.1; 18.2
Paleocoordinates	[ ⚑ ] 27°36′N 21°36′E / 27.6°N 21.6°E / 27.6; 21.6
Region	Baranya, Transdanubia
Country	Hungary
Type section
Named for	Mecsek Mountains
Mecsek Coal Formation (Hungary)

The Mecsek Coal Formation is a Jurassic geologic formation in Hungary. Indeterminate fossil ornithischian tracks have been reported from the formation.^[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs

Indeterminate sauropod remains once misattributed to the Cetiosauridae are present in the province of Kómlo, Hungary.

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks
    • Indeterminate ornithischian tracks

References

Bibliography

• Osi, A.; J. Pálfy; L. Makádi; Z. Szentesi; P. Gulyás; M. Rabi; G. Botfalvai, and K. Hips. 2011. Hettangian (Early Jurassic) dinosaur tracksites from the Mecsek Mountains, Hungary. Ichnos 18. 79–94.
• Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN:0-520-24209-2* Gierlinski, G. 1996. Dinosaur ichnotaxa from the Lower Jurassic of Hungary. Geological Quarterly 40. 119–128.
• Kordos, L. 1983. Fontosabb szórványleletek a máfi gerinces-gyüjteményében (8. közlemény) [Major finds of scattered fossils in the paleovertebrate collection of the Hungarian Geological Institute (communication no. 8)]. A Magyar Állami Földtani Intézet Évi Jelentése 1981. 503–511.

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