Beremend Locality 5 (Pliocene to of Hungary)

Where: Barany, Hungary (45.9° N, 18.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 18.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• Lower Pleistocene in text, but is pre 2Ma in tables and is therefore late Pliocene.

Environment/lithology: karst

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: salvage,

• salvaged by Nosky in the autumn of 1952.

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 35359: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 05.12.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Amphibia
 Salientia -
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768 toad
Aves
 Caprimulgiformes - Apodidae
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Rallidae indet. Vigors 1825 rail
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Gallus beremendensis Jánossy 1976 junglefowl
Reptilia
 Ophidia -
Mammalia
 Chiroptera -
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear
Ursus (s. l.) sp. indet.
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Putorius stromeri Kormos 1934 polecat
Xenictis pilgrimi mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Canidae
Alopex ? praeglacialis Kormos 1932 Arctic fox
 Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx sp. Kerr 1792 lynx
Lynx sp. indet.
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Capreolus sp. Gray 1821 roe
Capreolus sp. indet.
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
Caprinae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
"Desmana kormosi" = Galemys kormosi
"Desmana kormosi" = Galemys kormosi Schreuder 1940 Pyrenean desman
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Soriculus gibberodon red-toothed shrew
Petenyia hungarica Kormos 1934 red-toothed shrew
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
? Rhinocricetus sp. Kretzoi 1956 mouse
Mimomys sp. Forsyth-Major 1902 vole
Mimomys sp. indet. (small species)