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Ammonite stratigraphy of a Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) section on Nagy-Pisznice Hill (Gerecse Mts, Hungary)
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András Galácz Department of Paleontology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
H-1117, Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Hungary

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Géza Császár Department of Regional Geology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
H-1117, Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Hungary

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Barnabás Géczy Department of Paleontology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Zoltán Kovács Department of Pedagogy, Liszt Ferenc University, Budapest, Hungary
H-1076, Budapest, Liszt Ferenc tér 8, Hungary

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311–342
Online Publication Date:
01 Dec 2010
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01 Dec 2010
Article Category:
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/ceugeol.53.2010.4.1
Keywords:
Gerecse Mountains; Nagy-Pisznice Hill; Toarcian; Ammonoidea; biostratigraphy
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Abstract

In the Jurassic rocks exposed in a small abandoned quarry on the northwestern edge of Nagy-Pisznice Hill in the Gerecse Mts, fairly well preserved parts of a crocodile skeleton was found in 1996. The bed which yielded the skeletal remains is the uppermost layer of the Kisgerecse Marl Formation exposed here and was determined as belonging to the Upper Toarcian Grammoceras thouarsense Zone. The beds of the sequence above and below were carefully sampled in the late 1990s, and the encountered ammonites were evaluated biostratigraphically. As a result, the Lower Toarcian Harpoceras serpentinum Zone, the Middle Toarcian Hildoceras bifrons and Merlaites gradatus Zones, and the Upper Toarcian Grammoceras thouarsense and Geczyceras speciosum Zones were identified. Within most of these zones the subzones and even the faunal horizons were successfully recognized. The lowermost beds above the underlying Pliensbachian red limestone did not yield any fossils; thus the lowermost Toarcian Dactylioceras tenuicostatum Zone could not be documented. The highest Toarcian ammonite zones also remained unidentified, because the beds of the Tölgyhát Limestone above were not sampled all the way up. This paper presents the lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic details of the sequence, and the paleontological descriptions of the most important ammonites.

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