ASGP (2012), vol. 82: 39–43

LINGULA DREGERI (BRACHIOPODA) FROM THE MIDDLE MIOCENE OF HUNGARY

Maria Aleksandra BITNER(1), Alfréd DULAI(2), László KOCSIS(3) & Pál Mihály MÜLLER(4)

1) Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland; bitner at twarda.pan.pl
2) Department of Paleontology and Geology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1431 Budapest, P.O. Box 137, Hungary; dulai at nhmus.hu
3) Université de Lausanne, Faculté des géosciences et de l’environnement, Institut de Minéralogie et Géochimie, UNIL – Dorigny – Anthropole, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; laszlo.kocsis at unil.ch
4) Hungarian Geological Institute, Stefánia út 14, H-1143 Budapest, Hungary; muller.paal at gmail.com

Bitner, M. A., Dulai, A., Kocsis, L. & Müller, P. M., 2012. Lingula dregeri (Brachiopoda) from the Middle Miocene of Hungary. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 82: 39–43.

Abstract: Lingulide brachiopods, assigned to Lingula dregeri Andreae, 1893, have been identified from the Middle Miocene (Upper Badenian) of the Hungarian part of the Pannonian Basin. Although widely distributed in the Miocene of the Central Paratethys (Austria, Poland, Ukraine, Romania), the genus Lingula was not described previously from Hungary. Outside of the Central Paratethys, L. dregeri also has been recognized in the Atlantic and Mediterranean provinces and most probably in the Eastern Paratethys.