Krisztina Sebe

HUN-REN–MTM–ELTE Research Group for Paleontology

Sus arvernensis is a Pliocene species that occupies a key position in the evolution of suids (Suidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) in Eurasia, and besides, it is considered important for biochronological correlations and paleoecological inferences. However, our knowledge on S. arvernensis is largely based on fossil remains from southwestern Europe. Here...

The Mecsek Mountains in SW Hungary represent an uplifted basement block of the Pannonian Basin. Their Neogene cover includes deposits both from the Middle Miocene Central Paratethys and from its Late Miocene (Pannonian) brackish-water descendant, Lake Pannon. Along the mountain front, the Pannonian sands of the Pécsvárad sand pit contain a mixed ve...

The authigenic 10Be/9Be dating method, which is based on atmospheric cosmogenic 10Be and stable 9Be derived from the weathering of rocks, has great potential for dating the sediment deposition within the range of 0.2–14 Ma. However, the different origins of both isotopes lead to paleoenvironmental variations in initial 10Be/9Be ratios, which have n...

Thousands of coprolites have been collected from the Upper Miocene (Tortonian/Pannonian) sands of the Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit, one of the most important mixed Neogene vertebrate localities in Hungary. Although, the locality has been known for centuries, the coprolites have not been investigated in detail. We describe these fossils and explore th...

Up to the present, no terrestrial vertebrate fauna has been published from the pre-Pannonian Miocene of SW Hungary. In 2022 a microvertebrate assemblage was unearthed from a lime mud bed of the Middle Miocene Hidas Formation, in an abandoned coal mining field close to Hidas in the Mecsek Mts. The herpetofauna and the rodent material are described h...

The Villány Hills in SW Hungary have the richest archive of Pliocene-Quaternary vertebrate faunas in the Pannonian Basin, mostly in karstic cavities. Here we present three new sites that extend the list of Pleistocene vertebrate locations for the area and add information to the evolution history of the region. In the northern part of the Siklós qua...

In the last decade, lots of new results were published on the evolution of Lake Pannon based on borehole and seismic data from the Drava Basin and the vicinity of the Mecsek Mts. However, we still know relatively little about the geological structure of the transitional region, the area of South Zselic, located west of the Mecsek Mountains in the s...

Middle Miocene (Badenian) chondrichthyan fossils collected from the Tekeres Schlieren Member of the Baden Formation at Tekeres (southern Hungary, Mecsek Mts) are described here. The chondrichthyan assemblage is exceptionally diverse and well-preserved, and consists of holocephalans, selachians and batomorphs. Nine taxa are reported for the first ti...

Wind erosion features like wind-polished pebbles and rock surfaces or wind-carved landforms carry important information on past air flow systems. Because of the dominantly mountainous topography, Slovakia does not abound in such features. Still, they are present, especially in the southern, lower-lying parts of the country. In 2014 and 2015, invest...

Recent nautiloid and ammonoid finds from the Middle Triassic Zuhánya Limestone Formation in the Mecsek Mountains (south Hungary) proved that the formation encompasses the whole Pelsonian and the lower Illyrian substages of the Anisian Stage. On the basis of 11 identified ammonoid species, the Balatonicus and Trinodosus zones have a complete record....

Carbonate formations of Mesozoic-Tertiary to Quaternary age of Hungary abound in both early and late paleokarst features often superimposed on each other. Early (diagenetic) paleokarst is — as a rule — associated with shallow-water (either marine or freshwater) limestones and/or dolomites. Examples are known from the Transdanubian Range (Transdanub...

The karst region of the Western Mecsek Mts. is a hilly area with a maximum elevation of~600 m a.s.l. The karst has developed on Triassic limestones, with part of the drainage basins on lower Triassic sandstones and conglomerates. Our main objective was to constrain the karst development in time, to identify karstification periods with respect to cl...

Studies of incised valleys have become important in the last few decades, as they may provide hydrocarbon reservoirs laterally and vertically sealed by open-water mudstones. They also carry important information on base-level changes and supply of coarse-grained clastics to the deep-water fan-lobe reservoirs. Although some giant canyons are famous,...

The sand pit of Pécs-Danitzpuszta is one of the most important mixed Neogene vertebrate localities in Hungary, with older Miocene (Langhian – Serravallian) terrestrial and marine animal remains re-deposited into the upper Miocene (Tortonian) Lake Pannon sediments. Due to the mixed status of the Pécs-Danitzpuszta vertebrate assemblages, limited info...

Studies of seismically triggered deformations in the depositional record contribute significantly to our knowledge of earthquake recurrence over geological time. This paper describes soft sediment deformation structures preserved in a periglacial Upper Pleistocene succession of eolian sand in the eastern Vienna Basin, Central Europe. The strata wer...

Abstract The Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit in southern Hungary exposes middle and upper Miocene (Badenian to Pannonian/ Langhian to Tortonian) sediments along the mountain front fault zone of the Mecsek Mts and preserves an essential record of tectonic events during and after the early late Miocene, which are not exposed elsewhere in the region. In th...

The Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit is the most important outcrop of the oldest Pannonian (upper Miocene, Tortonian) deposits in southern Hungary. A trench excavated in 2018 exposed Lake Pannon deposits and underlying Paratethys strata down to the upper Badenian (Serravallian), and together with the sand pit they make up a continuous sedimentary success...

Dinoflagellate-cyst based biostratigraphy is an important tool in the stratigraphical subdivision and correlation of the Neogene Lake Pannon deposits. A total of 66 palynological samples were investigated from the Pannonian (upper Miocene) marl succession exposed in the Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit in order to evaluate the biostratigraphical assignme...

This paper examines Badenian (middle Miocene) macroinvertebrates – corals and molluscs – from the Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit (Mecsek Mts, SW Hungary) in order to extend our knowledge on Miocene normal marine deposits of the Mecsek region. Corals occur reworked in the upper Miocene sand that was deposited in the brackish Lake Pannon, and presumably...

The middle Miocene foraminifera and ostracod record of the Central Paratethys usually reflects stable normal marine depositional environments for the Badenian and more patchy, less stable restricted marine environments for the Sarmatian. A 17 m thick outcrop at Pécs-Danitzpuszta, Mecsek Mts, SW Hungary exposed an upper Badenian to Pannonian success...

The large outcrop at Pécs-Danitzpuszta, southern Hungary, exposes a 65-meter-thick succession of calcareous marls, clay marls and calcareous sands that were deposited during the early history of Lake Pannon, a vast, Caspian-type lake in Central Europe in the late Miocene. Within the framework of the complex stratigraphic investigation of this succe...

Chondrichthyans and osteichthyans are widely reported from marine sediments of the Central Paratethys, not only by sporadic occurrences, but also by complex, diverse fish assemblages. Here we present a rich fish fauna from the upper Miocene (Pannonian, Tortonian) lacustrine sediments exposed in the Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit, in the SW Pannonian Ba...

Final version published here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073822000240 The manuscript is a non-peer reviewed preprint submitted to EarthArXiv. Seismic hazard assessment is an important issue in geological research. Paleoseismological studies of the depositional record contribute significantly to our knowledge of earthqua...

Paleoseismological research focused on the intensity and recurrence intervals of earthquakes trough geological time is of primary importance for the prediction of geohazards related to seismic events. It is done routinely by dating the exposure of fault scarps using in situ produced cosmogenic nuclides, by dating the deposition of strata progressiv...

A pliocén-pleisztocén korú, terresztrikus Tengelici Vörösagyag Formáció karsztüregeket kitöltő kifejlődése nemzetközi szinten híres ősgerinces-leleteiről. Az egykori felszínre települt, az előzőnél jóval elterjedtebb kifejlődéséből ugyanakkor eddig egyetlen helyről, Visontáról volt ismert ősmaradvány, a Tengelici Formációval váltakozva települő hor...

A Paks II atomerőművi beruházás földtani kutatási programja keretében mélyített Pa-21-I és -II kutatóárokban olyan szerkezeteket észleltünk felső pleisztocén futóhomokban, amelyek kialakulása szeizmikus eseményekhez köthető. A feltárt szeizmotektonikus jelenségek két csoportba sorolhatók: képlékeny (laza üledékes) deformációk és törések. A képléken...

A Pécs keleti határában fekvő danitzpusztai homokbánya régóta ismert ősmaradvány-lelőhely, leginkább gerincesfosszíliáiról vált híressé (KAZÁR et al. 2007, KONRÁD et al. 2010). Az évtizedek alatt sok ember munkája nyomán nagy mennyiségű ősmaradvány látott napvilágot a bányában, melyek egy részét közgyűjteményekben, más részét magángyűjtőknél őrzik....

The end-Permian mass extinction and the subsequent Early Triassic is associated with major upheavals of the carbon cycle, an interval of approximately 5 million years, which have facilitated stratigraphic correlations in the absence of stratigraphically important index fossils. The Middle Triassic, an interval of approximately 10 million years, rec...

In the framework of a project studying the karst region of the Western Mecsek Mts in 2018-19, a new paleokarst cavity containing abundant vertebrate remains was found near the village of Bükkösd, extending the sparse Quaternary vertebrate record of the region. Th e herpeto-fauna is represented by a salamandrid, a true frog, lacertid lizards and col...

Upper Miocene to Pliocene (Pannonian) sediments of the Pannonian Basin System accumulated in the brackish Lake Pannon and the fluvial feeder systems, between 11.6-2.6 Ma. Their stratigraphic subdivision has been problematic for a long time due to the laterally prograding architecture of the basin fill and the historically independently evolving str...

The research of European urban flora is still based on the study of Western and Central European settlements, while relatively few data are available from the southern and eastern parts of Europe. This paper presents the first grid-based approach that surveyed the spontaneous and sub-spontaneous flora and its temporal changes of a Hungarian city lo...

A Villányi-hegységben található Szabolcs-völgyi kőfejtőben a felső-jura Szársomlyói Mészkövön belül egy jól lehatárolható, néhány tíz méter kiterjedésű mészkőtest található, melynek pontos kora ismeretlen, genetikája vitatott. A munka célja volt megfigyelni és leírni a mészkőtest makroszkópos kőzettani jellegét, ősmaradványtartalmát, szerkezeti ele...

Urbanization is one of the major causes of species loss and the homogenization of the world's flora. Our coarse-scale floristic mapping project of the largest south Transdanubian city, Pécs, is the first grid-based urban study in Hungary that reveals the current pattern of the vascular flora. Beyond the general description of the project, the speci...

The Late Miocene fossil locality Pécs-Danitzpuszta (Mecsek Mts., Hungary) has yielded cranial and postcranial bones of giant salamanders. Based on taxonomical studies, these relatively well-preserved, isolated bones belong to the cryptobranchid species Andrias scheuchzeri. Whereas the species is well documented from Neogene of Central Europe, this...

A new stratigraphic standard for the open lacustrine to deltaic Pannonian Stage is emerging from the combined sedimentological, lithostratigraphical, sequence stratigraphical, biostratigraphical, seismic stratigraphical, geochronological, and magnetostratigraphical investigations of 6 long drill cores. These were drilled by Paks II Nuclear Power Pl...

Large rivers can act as important ecological barriers for small mammals, but their exact role is debated. Here we examine the effect of the river Danube on populations of the European ground squirrel, an important representative of steppe communities, by studying the Quaternary history both of ground squirrels and of the Danube in the Pannonian Bas...

Lake Pannon, covering the Pannonian Basin (Hungary) during the Late Miocene, had a complex lake bottom with deeper sub-basins and intrabasinal basement highs, sometimes emerging above the lake level as islands and peninsulas. Above structural highs, the basin fill sequence usually commenced with deposition of transgressional, locally sourced coarse...

The late Miocene (Pannonian) flora of Pécs-Danitzpuszta was first studied and published by Hably & Sebe (2016). Recent collections, however, revealed additional foliage remains, some also providing epidermal details. A well-preserved leaf fragment assigned to Laurophyllum based on its micromorphology proves the presence of Lauraceae. A frequent ele...

During the Late Miocene – Early Pliocene, Lake Pannon occupied the Central Paratethys basin. The lower part of its sedimentary succession is dominated by offshore calcareous marls. These marls are already in the viewfield of oil companies also as unconventional exploration targets. Although their industrial importance is potentially high, the wides...

The 'Northern Imbricate Zone' along the northern edge of the Eastern Mecsek Mts, SW Hungary, are a complicated, narrow, uplifted band of basement, partly covered by Neogene sediments. The area is heavily deformed, with young, post-Miocene tectonic movements. Pannonian (Upper Miocene) lacustrine sediments are most widely distributed around the villa...

The Pannonian Basin, a major back-arc basin in the Alpine–Carpathian orogenic belt, experienced its syn-rift phase during the Early–Middle Miocene. Studying coeval sediments can provide important information on the initiation of the extension. This paper investigates syn-rift deposits in the Mecsek Mts. in SW Hungary from a tectono-sedimentary aspe...

The Somssich Hill 2 site (Villány Mts., South Hungary) yielded one of the richest late Early Pleistocene vertebrate assemblages within the Carpathian Basin. The present paper provides a summary of all former and new taxonomical results, as well as biostratigraphical and palaeoecological conclusions, which is completed with previously unpublished se...

This paper presents preliminary results of dendro-chronological analyses of the first occurrence of subfossil tree trunks from drava alluvial sediments. Driftwood logs were found at an outer bend of the Drava river near the village of Babócsa. The site is covered by >6 m fluvial sand and gravel. Trunks are arranged horizontally, roughly in the same...

The recovery of benthic invertebrates following the late Permian mass extinction event is often described as occurring in the Middle Triassic associated with the return of Early Triassic Lazarus taxa, increased body sizes, platform margin metazoan reefs, and increased tiering. Most quantitative palaeoecological studies, however, are limited to the...

In the Villány Hills, the southernmost exposed basement block of Hungary, Cenozoic rocks have been known to be represented mostly by Late Pliocene – Quaternary terrestrial sediments, red clays and loess. Cleaning of a classic exposure , the cable-car cut on Templom Hill in the village of Villány, at the eastern termination of the Villány Hills, rev...

The Tisza Megaunit in the Southern Pannonian Basin formed part of the southern margin of the European Plate in the Early Mesozoic era. Its exact paleo-position and relation to other structural blocks is disputed for a long time. Detrital zircon U–Pb dating, heavy mineral analysis and petrographical examination of Carnian to Pliensbachian sandstone...

A late Miocene (Pannonian) flora from the Mecsek Mts., Pécs-Danitzpuszta represents the oldest among the Pannonian floras of Hungary recorded so far, and comprises thermophilous elements in relatively high numbers: Daphnogene pannonica Kvaček & Knobloch, Lauraceae gen. et sp., and Tetraclinis salicornioides. The latter occurs exclusively in this fl...