Vörös A. szerk.: Fragmenta Mineralogica Et Palaentologica 15. 1992. (Budapest, 1992)

In 1990 a new temporary exposure of Lower Jurassic rocks was discovered by Cs. Péró (Eötvös University, Budapest). It was located approximately 1.5 km southwest of the village of Villány, near the open-air museum called "Szobrosbánya" on the eastern slope of the Harsány-hegy (Text-fig. 1). The section was Text-fig. 1. - Location map showing the position of the outcrop with Domerian fauna at the eastern end of the Harsány-hegy (asterisk). The dot in the insert map marks the situation of the Villány region in Hungary exposed by an excavation of a wine cellar and its faunula is briefly described here due to its considerable importance to the understanding of the Jurassic geology of the Villány Hills. This is the first documentation of the Pliensbachian of the Harsány thrust sheet and the first record of the Domerian Substage from the area. THE SECTION The excavation exposes a more than 7 m thick sequence (Text-fig. 2). The steeply dipping (approx. 60°) beds are truncated abruptly at the middle of the wall of the pit and are covered by thick loess. The lowermost beds consist of siliceous limestone, sometimes strongly leached, forming 20-30 cm thick layers. At about one meter a less siliceous and very fossiliferous bed appears with nodular bedding surface. The following 2.5 m thick interval shows similar features: siliceous and cherty limestone beds alternate