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Petrified ones - photo exhibition
The special photo exhibition of  Mr. Laszlo Alapfy  can be seen in the Ancient Pine Visitor Centre between March 1. 2011  and April 30.
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Riddle
There are some unclassified trace fossils on the surface of the footprint-sandstone in the Tasnádi Kubacska Hall of the Geological Study Trail. Some of them are footprints of  prehistoric animals (see the pictures below). We would appreciate your input or comments on them by email. Let's discover our past together.
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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