Osztramos locality 1/f (Pliocene of Hungary)

Where: North Hungary, Hungary (48.5° N, 20.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.4° N, 20.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• "Based on micromammals, the age of the fauna may be defined as Lower Pliocene (MN 14) (KORDOS 1994; FEJFAR et al. 1998)" (Venczel, 2001).

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; calcareous breccia and limestone

• The fossil locality is a "bone pocket" within a fissure fill of Middle Triassic limestone. The fossil bearing sediments are described as "brecciated".

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1970-1972

Collection methods: acetic,

• " [...] the excavation of the entire material took place between 1970-1972 (JÁNOSSY & KORDOS 1977). [...] The entire material is deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum [HNHM] in Budapest" (Venczel, 2001).

Primary reference: G. Topál. 1979. Fossil bats of the Rhinolophus ferrumequinum group in Hungary (Mammalia: Chirooptera). Fragmenta Mineralogica et Palaeontologica 9:61-101 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231341: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 17.08.2023

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus estramontis n. sp.
Rhinolophus estramontis n. sp. Topál 1979 horseshoe bat
V.79.191 (holotype), left mandible without angular process and with full dentition