Also known as Villány 8, level 12b
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 35468: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 16.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
Talpa fossilis Petenyi 1864 mole | |
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew | |
Mustela palerminea weasel | |
Pliomys episcopalis, Cricetus praeglacialis, "Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes, "Microtus arvalinus" = Microtus, "Microtus nivalinus" = Microtus, "Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus, "Pitymys hintoni" = Microtus, Arvicola cantiana, Mimomys savini, Allocricetus bursae, Lagurodon pannonicus
Pliomys episcopalis rodent
Cricetus praeglacialis rodent
"Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes vole
"Microtus arvalinus" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus vole
Arvicola cantiana vole
Mimomys savini vole
Allocricetus bursae rodent
Lagurodon pannonicus rodent | |
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus ground squirrel | |
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
Spalax advenus blind mole | |
Sicista praeloriger Kormos 1930 birch mouse | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Reptilia | |
Lacerta cf. viridis Laurenti 1768 European green lizard | |
Amphibia | |
Bombina sp. Oken 1816 fire-bellied toad | |
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768 toad | |
Pelobates cf. fuscus Laurenti 1768 Common Eurasian spadefoot toad |