Scaphite hungadrianus ammonite from Hungary

This is the last of the ammonites that I received from my Hungarian friend. Scaphite hungadrianus is a heteromorph type ammonite. This means it's shell does not form a neat spiral that is contained in a single plane. The ammonite started out with a normally coiled shell but then at some point it abandoned the coil and grew straight for a bit before returning to a coil. This is best illustrated in the third picture below. The specimen comes from near Pénzesgyőr, Hungary and was found in sediments from the Aptian stage of the Cretaceous.

I found a cool series of videos on You Tube that were created by a local fossil hunter in Hungary. One of them focuses on collecting at Pénzesgyőr.
Thank you Karoly for the cool specimen!

Salaziceras salazacense ammonite from Hungary

This is the ammonite Salaziceras salazacense ammonite from Pénzesgyőr, Hungary. It was collected from Cretaceous (Aptian stage) aged rocks. It is nicely detailed with some of the sutures visible on the back. It was among the fossils I received from my friend Karoly in Hungary.

Arbacina monilis echinoid from Hungary

The wee regular echinoid pictured below is Arbacina monilis from the Eocene near Nyirád, Hungary. I received them as part of an exchange with a collector in Hungary. The fossils have a bit of matrix on them still but you can clearly see the tubercles (the round bumps that the spines attach to). The fossils are from the Badenian stage of the Miocene which corresponds to the Langhian stage of the ICS).

Apical side

Oral side

Thanks to Karoly for the fossils!

Stoliczkaia dispar ammonite from Hungary

Another neat fossil I received from my friend in Hungary is this Stoliczkaia dispar ammonite from Pénzesgyőr, Hungary. It was collected from Cretaceous (Aptian stage) aged rocks. It has some of the suture lines visible but the one side is a little rough.

Thank you to Karoly for the specimen!

Pyrgulifera sp. gastropod from Hungary

I made some exchanges with a friend in Hungary this summer who wanted fossil shark teeth. Below are a pics of the gastropod Pyrgulifera sp. from the Santonian stage of the Cretaceous. They were collected from old coal mines near Ajka-Csinger, Hungary. The preservation is really nice and I especially like the specimen preserved with matrix.

This specimen is loose from matrix and has some nice blue color on it. I'm not sure if the color is the result of minerals in the sediments or they are remnants of the original shell colors.

Thanks to Karoly for the specimens!

Fossil leaf from Hungary

Here is a fossil leaf from Hungary that I received from my friend Christian as part of a trade. It comes from the Miocene (Serravallian stage, Sarmatian substage) near the village of Erdőbénye in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary.

I'm not sure what the genus is but it reminds me of an oak leaf (Quercus sp.) although this discussion on the Fossil Forum indicates that it could be Zelkova zelkovifolia as well.