MIOCENE FAUNA

Landscape reconstruction painting

On the left side of the painting, in the distance, you can discover the ranges of the young Bükk Mountain, and on the right, the still smoking Tokaj Hill. Moving from left to right, the zonality of the vegetation is also observable: first there is a bog containing mainly mammoth trees (Sequoia), followed by a mixed bush-swamp, and on the left side of the picture a bald-cypress forest (Taxodium) visible. If the image continued even further, we could see an extensive reed after the Taxodium forest before reaching the open waters of Lake Pannon. The large mammals of the fauna, also starting from the left, are represented first by a wild boar family (Microstonyx), then by an ancient proboscidean (Gomphotherium) and a wild horse group (Hipparion), finally by an extinct deer species (Procapreolus).