ELTE Tata Geological Garden
Research subjects:
Mesozoic Bivalvia (phylogeny, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography); fossils of the Carpathian region; history of the geology in Hungary; maintenance of geosites
Research projects:
Comparative study of Late Jurassic faunas from the Bakony Mts: their palaeobiology and bearing on the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary
Bivalve assemblages of the Upper Cretaceous Lower Gosau Subgroup of the Northern Calcareous Alps (taxonomy, palaeoecology, biostratigraphy)
Contact info:
Tel: 06 1 372 2500/8623 extension
e-mail: szente@ludens.elte.hu
address: H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. s. 1/c, Room 0.205
office hours: Thursday, 10.00-11.00
Most important publications:
Szente, I. (2003): Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous bivalve assemblages from Transdanubia (Hungary). - Földtani Közlöny 133(4): 477-499.
Szente, I., Baron-Szabo, R. Ch., Hradecká, L., Kvaček, J., Svobodová, M., Švabenická, L., Schlagintweit, F. & Lobitzer, H. (2010): The Lower Gosau Subgroup of the Kohlbachgraben and "Station Billroth" North of St. Gilgen (Turonian - ?Coniacian, Salzburg, Austria). - Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 65: 135-154, 3 Abb., 5 Taf.
Főzy I. & Szente, I. (2012): Ősmaradványok - A Kárpát-Pannon térség kövületei. 579 pp. Geolitera, Szeged
Főzy, I. & Szente, I. (English Text Editor Gareth Dyke) (2014): The Fossils of the Carpathian Region. - Indiana University Press, 508 p.
Head of Department & Instructors of the Department
Invited instructors
MTA-ELTE Research Group of Geology, Geophysics & Space Science