Kovács Sándor conodonta-gyűjteménye.

The collection of the Department of Palaeontology and Geology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum was enriched by a microfossil material which is scientifically greatly important and unique in Hungary. In 2010, when Sándor Kovács passed away, his conodont collection was moved to the Department of Palaeontology of the Eötvös Loránd University. Following years of classification and partly processing, the material was donated to the museum. Conodonts are known from marine beds of the Palaeozoic and the Triassic and they are highly significant from the stratigraphical point of view. Due to their rapid evolution, conodont elements are used worldwide for correlating different successions, despite their uncertain systematic affinities. Beside conodonts, other microfossil groups can also be found in the collection that contains thousands of fossils. The material is mostly from Hungary, but localities from other countries are represented as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]