Also known as Villány 8, level 8
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,
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 35465: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 16.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Amphibia | |
Pelobates cf. fuscus Laurenti 1768 Common Eurasian spadefoot toad | |
Mammalia | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
Mustela palerminea weasel | |
Erinaceus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hedgehog | |
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew
Drepanosorex margaritodon red-toothed shrew | |
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole
Talpa fossilis Petenyi 1864 mole | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Sicista praeloriger Kormos 1930 birch mouse | |
Pliomys episcopalis, Lagurodon pannonicus, Mimomys savini, "Microtus nivalinus" = Microtus, "Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus, "Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus, "Pitymys hintoni" = Microtus, Arvicola cantiana, "Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes, Cricetus praeglacialis, Allocricetus bursae
Pliomys episcopalis mouse
Lagurodon pannonicus mouse
Mimomys savini vole
"Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus vole
Arvicola cantiana vole
"Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes vole
Cricetus praeglacialis mouse
Allocricetus bursae mouse | |
Spalax advenus blind mole | |
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus ground squirrel | |
Reptilia | |
Ophisaurus intermedius glass lizard | |
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Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird |