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Upper Oligocene marine fishes from nearshore deposits of the Central Paratethys (Máriahalom, Hungary)

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A rich and diverse ichthyofauna is described from the upper Oligocene (Egerian) sands of Máriahalom, Hungary. The site is dominated by brackish molluscs that are preserved together with rare marine and terrestrial vertebrates. Based on the isolated elasmobranch and bony fish remains, eight sharks, four rays and seven teleost taxa were identified from Máriahalom. The ichthyofauna represents a nearshore marine subtropical community dominated by odontaspidid and carcharhinid sharks and by euryhaline durophagous sparids and by sciaenid teleost fishes. Epibenthic feeders were common, whereas piscivorous taxa included barracudas, billfishes and numerous sharks, including the macropredatory Otodus angustidens. Palaeontological, sedimentological and stratigraphical data indicates a tide-influenced and fluvial-influenced nearshore palaeoenvironment with brackish lagoons and normal marine littoral habitats. The remains of terrestrial, brackish and nearshore marine invertebrates and vertebrates accumulated in a tidal channel. The systematics of the ichthyofauna is consistent with the palaeogeography inferred from invertebrates, i.e. a Central Paratethys connected to the Mediterranean area during the Egerian.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the two reviewers, Alexandre F. Bannikov (Borisyak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) and James C. Tyler (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington), for their constructive comments and suggestions that greatly improved the manuscript. We want to thank all the numerous fieldwork participants who assisted MR and GB between 1999 and 2006. Botond Kemény and Ágnes Görög (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) are particularly thanked for their assistance in fieldwork and discussions. Excavations were supported by grants from the Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae Program and the Hantken Miksa Foundation. We are indebted to the staff of the Department of Palaeontology and the Department of Physical and Applied Geology of the Eötvös Loránd University for their support and help provided through the years. Marian Bosnakoff (Natural History Museum, Hungary), Balázs Szinger (MOL Hungarian Gas and Oil Company, Budapest), András Uhrin (Eriksfiord, Stavanger, Norway), Attila Ősi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) and Thomas Reinecke (Bochum, Germany) are acknowledged for insightful discussions and sharing literature. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework programme for research and innovation under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 609402-2020 researchers: Train to Move (T2M) to MR. The research of GC was supported by grants (ex-60% 2015 and 2016) of the Università degli Studi di Torino.

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  1. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Ludovika tér 2, Budapest, 1083, Hungary

    Márton Szabó & Gábor Botfalvai

  2. Geological and Geophysical Institute of Hungary, Stefánia út 14, Budapest, 1143, Hungary

    Márton Szabó

  3. MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Paleontology, ázmány Péter sétány 1/c, Budapest, 1117, Hungary

    Gábor Botfalvai

  4. Geology Group, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

    László Kocsis

  5. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso, 35, I-10125, Torino, Italy

    Giorgio Carnevale & Márton Rabi

  6. Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Physical and Applied Geology, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary

    Orsolya Sztanó

  7. Szt. László utca 34, Mindszent, 6630, Hungary

    Zoltán Evanics

  8. Institute of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Sigwartstr. 10, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

    Márton Rabi

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Szabó, M., Botfalvai, G., Kocsis, L. et al. Upper Oligocene marine fishes from nearshore deposits of the Central Paratethys (Máriahalom, Hungary). Palaeobio Palaeoenv 97, 747–771 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-017-0285-0

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