Csehbánya Formation

Csehbánya Formation Stratigraphic range: Late Santonian[1]
Type	Geological formation
Location
Region	Europe
Country	Hungary

The Csehbánya Formation is a geological formation in Hungary whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Various fossils from the Csehbánya Formation

Fishes, amphibians, turtles, squamates, crocodilians, dinosaurs, birds and pterosaurs present in Veszprém, Hungary, near the village of Németbánya in an open-pit bauxite mine.^[2][3] Other finds include Abelisauridae indet.,^[4] Rhabdodontidae indet.,^[3] Tetanurae indet.^[4]

Amphibians

Amphibians of the Csehbánya Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes	Images
Hungarobatrachus[5]	H. szukacsi	Iharkút locality, Hungary.			Advanced frog.

Pterosaurs

Pterosaurs of the Csehbánya Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes	Images
Bakonydraco	B. Galaczi	Geographically present in Veszprém, Hungary.

Non-Avian Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs of the Csehbánya Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes	Images
Ajkaceratops[6]	A. kozmai[6]					Ajkaceratops Rhabdodon
Hungarosaurus[7]	H. tormai	Geographically present in Veszprém, Hungary.
Pneumatoraptor[4]	P. fodori	Geographically present in Veszprém, Hungary.
Mochlodon	M. vorosi [8]

Aves

Aves of the Csehbánya Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes	Images
Bauxitornis[9]	B. mindszentyae				An avisaurid enantiornithine.

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References

1. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 588-593. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
2. Makádi, L., Botfalvai, G., Ősi, A. 2006: Egy késő-kréta kontinentális gerinces fauna a Bakonyból: halak, kétéltűek, teknősök, gyíkok. Földtani Közlöny 136/4, pp. 487-502.
3. Ősi, A. & Rabi, M., 2006. Egy késő-kréta kontinentális gerinces fauna a Bakonyból II.: krokodilok, dinoszauruszok, pteroszauruszok és madarak (The Late Cretaceous continental vertebrate fauna from the Bakony Mountains II: crocodiles, dinosaurs (Theropoda, Aves, Ornithischia), pterosaurs). Földtani Közlöny, 136, 4, 503–526.
4. Ősi, A., Apesteguía, S.M and Kowalewski, M. (In press). "Non-avian theropod dinosaurs from the early Late Cretaceous of Central Europe." Cretaceous Research, doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2010.01.001
5. Zoltán Szentesi and Márton Venczel (2010). "An advanced anuran from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) of Hungary" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 256 (3): 291–302. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0054.
6. Ősi, A.; Butler, R.J.; Weishampel, David B. (2010). "A Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur from Europe with Asian affinities". Nature 465 (7297): 466–468. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..466O. doi:10.1038/nature09019. PMID 20505726.
7. Ösi, Attila. 2005. Hungarosaurus tormai, a new ankylosaur (Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hungary. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(2):370-383, June 2005.
8. Ősi, A.; Prondvai, E.; Butler, R.; Weishampel, D. B. (2012). Evans, Alistair Robert, ed. "Phylogeny, Histology and Inferred Body Size Evolution in a New Rhabdodontid Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary". PLoS ONE 7 (9): e44318. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...744318O. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044318. PMC 3448614. PMID 23028518.
9. Gareth J. Dyke, Attila Ősi (2010). "A review of Late Cretaceous fossil birds from Hungary". Geological Journal 45 (4): 434–444. doi:10.1002/gj.1209.

Cretaceous Period
Lower/Early Cretaceous	Upper/Late Cretaceous
Berriasian | Valanginian | Hauterivian Barremian| Aptian | Albian	Cenomanian | Turonian | Coniacian Santonian |Campanian | Maastrichtian