Villany locality 8, level 12a (Pleistocene of Hungary)

Also known as Villány 8, level 12a

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:

• 'limy loess formations'

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• only part of the material from layer 12a had been analysed when this list was published.

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 35467: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 16.12.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• grassland-steppe environment.
unclassified
  -
Angiospermae
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry
unclassified
  -
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia
 Chiroptera -
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole
Talpa fossilis Petenyi 1864 mole
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Drepanosorex margaritodon red-toothed shrew
Sorex cf. minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis cf. mosbachensis Soergel 1925 canine
 Artiodactyla -
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Pliomys episcopalis, Cricetus praeglacialis, "Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes, "Microtus arvalinus" = Microtus, "Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus, "Microtus nivalinus" = Microtus, "Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus, "Pitymys hintoni" = Microtus, "Pitymys gregaloides" = Microtus, Arvicola cf. bactonensis, Mimomys savini, Allocricetus bursae, Lagurodon pannonicus
"Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes vole
"Microtus arvalinus" = Microtus vole
"Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus vole
"Microtus nivalinus" = Microtus vole
Microtus nivalinus-nivaloides group
"Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys hintoni" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys gregaloides" = Microtus vole
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Muridae
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus, Spalax advenus
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
Spalax advenus blind mole
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Sicista praeloriger Kormos 1930 birch mouse
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
Reptilia
 Squamata - Lacertidae
Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates
 Ophidia -
Ophidia indet. snake
abundant
Aves
  -
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
Amphibia
 Salientia - Bombinatoridae
Bombina sp. Oken 1816 fire-bellied toad
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog
I-II
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobates cf. fuscus Laurenti 1768 Common Eurasian spadefoot toad