Also known as Nagyharsányhegy 4
Where: Barany, Hungary (45.8° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 18.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Biharian, Late Lower Pleistocene. 'Kretzoi employed the designation no. 4 for those sites in the eastern wall of the eastern quarry of the hill which Kormos described as hollows filled with brown sediment.'
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: 'the literature contains a series of mistakes concerning this locality, and some of the previous lists certainly do not represent similar aged material.' The locality was subsequently demolished by quarrying.
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 35442: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 15.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Myotis dasycneme Boie 1825 vesper bat
Myotis emarginatus Geoffroy 1806 vesper bat | |
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole
Talpa fossilis Petenyi 1864 mole | |
Drepanosorex margaritodon red-toothed shrew
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Crocidura obtusa white-toothed shrew | |
Equus marxi horse | |
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Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
Procamptoceras cf. brivatense antelope
Gazellospira aff. torticornis antelope | |
? Xenictis pilgrimi mustelid carnivore
Mustela palerminea weasel
Mustela praenivalis Kormos 1934 weasel | |
Canis (? Thos) sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
Vulpes praeglacialis Kormos 1932 fox
Vulpes cf. vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox | |
Sicista praeloriger Kormos 1930 birch mouse | |
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse | |
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus ground squirrel | |
Cricetus cf. praeglacialis, Cricetus cricetus, Cricetulus sp., Lagurus pannonicus, Mimomys intermedius, Arvicola aff. bactonensis, "Microtus arvalinus" = Microtus, "Microtus nivalinus" = Microtus, "Microtus nivaloides" = Microtus, "Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus, "Microtus sp." = Microtus, "Pitymys gregaloides" = Microtus, "Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus, "Clethrionomys hintoni" = Myodes, Pliomys episcopalis
Cricetus cf. praeglacialis rodent
Cricetus cricetus Linnaeus 1758 European hamster 2 subspecies - C.c. praeglacialis and C.c. runtonensis
Cricetulus sp. Milne-Edwards 1867 rodent
Lagurus pannonicus Kormos 1930 rodent
Mimomys intermedius vole
"Microtus arvalinus" = Microtus vole
"Microtus nivalinus" = Microtus vole
"Microtus nivaloides" = Microtus vole
"Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys gregaloides" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus vole
"Clethrionomys hintoni" = Myodes vole
Pliomys episcopalis rodent | |
Lagotherium beremendensis rabbit
Lepus terraerubrae hare |