Ercsi: Villafranchian, Hungary

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
    = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825
McKenna and Bell 1997
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
    = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868
O'Regan 2003
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Camelidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Hungary State/province:Fejer
Coordinates: 47.3° North, 18.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.5° North, 19.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Villafranchian
Age range of interval: 3.55 - 1.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: same age as Kislang, upper Villanyian, MN17.
Lithology and environment
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: 'the overlying sediment is loess, whereas the underlying rock is Pannonian clay.'
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Material held in the Hungarian National Geological Institute. Ercsi is the type locality for the 'meridionalis pebbles'.
Metadata
Database number:35380
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-12-09 05:15:55 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-12-09 05:15:55
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
9534.PACED D. Janossy. 1986. Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, 8. Elsevier, Amsterdam 1-208 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

7584 M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level 1-640 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
9580PACED H. J. O'Regan. 2003. Reidentifications and synonomies of European mammals. [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]