Earth: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
Paleocoordinates	[ ⚑ ] 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.

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs

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

Dinosaurs
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Anchisauripus	A. tuberosus	Pécsbánya coal mine, seam 22		Ichnofossils	An eubrontid
Kayentapus	K. soltykovensis	Pécs-Vasas II mine		Ichnofossils
Komlosaurus	K. carbonis	Kómlo		Teeth Vertebrae Related footprints	A theropod
Heterodontosauridae	Indeterminate	Kómlo		Partial frontal skeleton	A neornithischian
Theropoda	Indeterminate			Footprints Isolated teeth	An indeterminate theropod

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.