Also known as Villány 8, level 12
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 35466: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 16.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Pelobates cf. fuscus Laurenti 1768 Common Eurasian spadefoot toad | |
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog | |
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768 toad | |
Reptilia | |
Ophisaurus intermedius glass lizard | |
Ophidia indet. snake | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Mammalia | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus ground squirrel | |
Sicista praeloriger Kormos 1930 birch mouse | |
Spalax advenus blind mole
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse | |
Lagurodon pannonicus, "Microtus nivalinus" = Microtus, "Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus, "Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus, "Pitymys hintoni" = Microtus, Arvicola cantiana, "Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes, Mimomys savini, Allocricetus bursae, Cricetus praeglacialis, Pliomys episcopalis
Lagurodon pannonicus mouse
"Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus vole
Arvicola cantiana vole
"Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes vole
Mimomys savini vole
Allocricetus bursae mouse
Cricetus praeglacialis mouse
Pliomys episcopalis mouse | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole
Talpa fossilis Petenyi 1864 mole | |
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew
Drepanosorex margaritodon red-toothed shrew | |
Mustela palerminea weasel |