Our activities in brief
The basis of our research is the taxonomical identification of fossils. In this process, the findings of different localities are assigned by scientific names and researchers discover the wonderful richness of ancient wildlife . The investigations focus on the fossils and geological history of the Carpathian-Pannonian region, which help us to understand and reconstruct the history of the biosphere and ancient wildlife of the Carpathian Basin.
The most significant fossil groups in our collections are foraminifera, molluscs (bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods), tentaculata (bryozoans and brachiopods) and vertebrates (fish, reptiles, birds and mammals). Although we preserve fossils from the last half billion years of Earth’s history, most of our specimens are from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. While the focus of our research is on the palaeontological, stratigraphical and palaeobiogeographic studies of the Mesozoic era (especially the Triassic and Jurassic invertebrates and Cretaceous vertebrates), significant scientific processing of Neogene invertebrates and Pleistocene vertebrates is under way.
