Osztramos locality 3: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Hungary

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Anguidae
Ophisaurus cf. intermedius
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus sp. Lacépède 1799
Rhinolophus aff. ferrumequinum (Schreber 1774)
Rhinolophus euryale Blasius 1853
ssp: praeglacialis
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis schaubi
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829
spp.
Myotis dasycneme Boie 1825
Mammalia - Talpidae
Desmana sp. Guldenstaedt 1777
big
Talpa "fossilis" Petenyi 1864
Mammalia - Soricidae
Beremendia fissidens (Petényi 1864)
Crocidura cf. kornfeldi Kormos 1934
Petenyia hungarica Kormos 1934
Sorex cf. praeminutus
Sorex "araneus" Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceus "praeglacialis" Brunner 1933
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona sp. Link 1795
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Dolomys episcopalis"
"Dolomys kretzoii"
Prospalax priscus
Trilophomys cf. schaubi Fejfar 1961
Allocricetus aff. ehiki
Mimomys hungaricus
Mimomys aff. hassiacus
Mimomys sp. Forsyth-Major 1902
"pusillus-" or "simplex-group"
Mimomys cf. hintoni
Mimomys cf. pliocaenicus (Forsyth Major 1889)
Lemmus cf. lemmus (Linnaeus 1758)
Villanyia sp. Kretzoi 1956
Germanomys sp. Heller 1936
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Micromys cf. praeminutus
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829
spp. small, big
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Glis cf. sackdillingensis Heller 1930
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Citellus cf. primigenius
synonym of Spermophilus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Estramomys simplex
see common names

Geography
Country:Hungary
Coordinates: 48.5° North, 20.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.4° North, 20.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Time: "Upper Villafranchian", Vallanyium, Lowermost Pleistocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:condensed,brown,red unlithified siltstone
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Fissure fill - dark red-brownish soil; in between the soil there are some layers of strongly cemented calcit - 20-30 cm in thickness.
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:The collection mainly includes very small mammalian fossils. It could be found only one Canidae of the size of Vulpes and one Cervidae of the size of Capreolus.
Metadata
Database number:39797
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell
Modifier:S. Kuemmell Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-06-06 12:31:32 Last modified:2004-06-06 16:07:13
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-06 12:31:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10779.5% 39320D. Janossy. 1970. Ein neuer Eomyide (Rodentia, Mammalia) aus dem Ältestpleistozän ("Oberes Villafrankium", Villanyium) des Osztramos (Nordostungarn); (A new Eomyid (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the lowermost Pleistocene (upper Villafranchian) from Osztramos mountain (Northeastern Hungary). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 62:99-113 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]