Also known as Villány 8, level 12a
Where: Barany, Hungary (45.9° N, 18.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 18.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Biharian, Middle Pleistocene. The cave was opened from one side during quarrying and Kretzoi and his co-workers, including the author (Janossy) in 1953 and 1955, removed material in 12 layers. The series, starting from the bottom, begins with reddish clay with large calcite deposits, and in the upper layers is composed of limy loess formations.'
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• only part of the material from layer 12a had been analysed when this list was published.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35467: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 16.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Mammalia | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
Ruminantia indet. ruminant | |
Mustela palerminea weasel | |
Canis cf. mosbachensis Soergel 1925 canine | |
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole
Talpa fossilis Petenyi 1864 mole | |
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Drepanosorex margaritodon red-toothed shrew
Sorex cf. minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus ground squirrel | |
Sicista praeloriger Kormos 1930 birch mouse | |
Allocricetus bursae, Pliomys episcopalis, "Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes, Mimomys savini, "Microtus arvalinus" = Microtus, "Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus, "Microtus nivalinus" = Microtus, "Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus, "Pitymys hintoni" = Microtus, "Pitymys gregaloides" = Microtus, Arvicola cf. bactonensis, Lagurodon pannonicus, Cricetus praeglacialis
Allocricetus bursae mouse
Pliomys episcopalis mouse
"Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes vole
Mimomys savini vole
"Microtus arvalinus" = Microtus vole
"Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys hintoni" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys gregaloides" = Microtus vole
Lagurodon pannonicus mouse
Cricetus praeglacialis mouse | |
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus, Spalax advenus
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
Spalax advenus blind mole | |
Reptilia | |
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Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Amphibia | |
Bombina sp. Oken 1816 fire-bellied toad | |
Pelobates cf. fuscus Laurenti 1768 Common Eurasian spadefoot toad | |
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Angiospermae | |
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry |