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Marathon Photos at the Fossils
On April 26 a new photo exhibition opened at the Ancient Pine Visitor Centre of the Site.
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Toads and frogs invade the Miocene Park
With the start of the tourism season toads and frogs also appeared on the Site. But why do they visit us? Could that be, that they have heard about our newest discoveries of their ancestors' tracks and footprints of prehistoric reptiles?
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The Guardian about our Miocene Park
The Ipolytarnoc Fossils was named as one of the best tourism destinations in Hungary!
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shark teeth



The reworked shoreline sandstone layers of the 23 Ma old sea sediments bear a very rich marine fauna. The so called ’shark tooth-bearing beds’ contain- beside of shark teeth - a mixture of bones from rays, dolphins, manatees and crocodilians.

The shark teeth attracted the attention of the locals, they imaginatively called them petrified bird tongs and sold them in necklaces to the petrified tourists, who came to visit the wonders of nature in the first half of the last century.

After the 1903 description of Koch, the ’Ipolytarnóc shark tooth-bearing bed’ became the characteristic, marker bed of the Eggenburgian stage of the Lower Miocene in the Central Paratethys.

The fauna described more than 100 years ago was revised recently and completed with new finds. The result shows a very diverse Lower Miocene shark community that includes 19 genera with 16 certain species. ( Kocsis, 2007)

Marine animals' feeding traces can be examined on the surface of a broken conglomerate-sandstone block, which is embraced by the rhyolite ash-flow unit of the geological trail. Photos of the bioerosion. You can share your thoughts about them with us.
  • ANIMAL FOOTPRINTS