Phalacrocorax bakonyiensis n. sp., a new species of cormorant from the Late Miocene of Hungary

Horváth, Ida; Futó, János; Eugen Kessler, Jenő

doi:10.2478/orhu-2024-0016

Abstract

We describe Phalacrocorax bakonyiensis n. sp. an extinct member of the cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae). The fossil was found in 2021 by geologist János Futó in the sediments of a small cave cavity on the side of Várhegy in Sümeg, a part of the Bakony Mountains of West Hungary, where Late Miocene (MN11–12) vertebrate fossils have been found in the past decades. The total number of bone fragments collected was 14, of which only three can be identified. Two of these belong to adults and one, due to its poor preservation and size, to a very young specimen.

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Phalacrocorax bakonyiensis n. sp., a new species of cormorant from the Late Miocene of Hungary

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