Villany locality 6: Early Pleistocene, Hungary

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Rosales - Ulmaceae
12 specimens
Insecta - Orthoptera
1 specimen
Myriapoda - Julida - Julidae
1 specimen
unclassified
2 specimens
1 specimen
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bombinatoridae
Bombina sp. Oken 1816
15 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pelobatidae
Pelobates cf. fuscus Laurenti 1768
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Palaeobatrachidae
? Pliobatrachus langhae Fejérváry 1917
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
311 specimens
Arvicola sp. Lacépède 1799
1 specimen
7 specimens
35 specimens
Microtus nivalinus-nivaloides group
4 specimens
10 specimens
14 specimens
55 specimens
2 specimens
7 specimens
    = Mimomys savini
Janossy 1986
2 specimens
184 specimens
1 specimen
Cricetulus sp. Milne-Edwards 1867
6 specimens
Cricetulus s.l. sp.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
10 specimens
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona sp. Link 1795
11 specimens
Mammalia - Soricidae
Beremendia fissidens (Petényi 1864)
17 specimens
86 specimens
2 specimens
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911
86 specimens
Sorex cf. minutus Linnaeus 1766
2 specimens
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpa fossilis Petenyi 1864
14 specimens
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
3 specimens
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
1 specimen
2 specimens
1 specimen
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
7 specimens
I-II
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
1 specimen
Myotis cf. wüsti
Reptilia
Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
fragments of carapace
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Reptilia - Ophidia
Ophidia indet. Latreille 1804
Reptilia - Anguidae
Reptilia
see common names

Geography
Country:Hungary State/province:Barany
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 18.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.4° North, 18.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Biharian, late Lower Pleistocene.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: 'terra rossa'
Geology comments: 'the wide Oxfordian limestone of the southern wall is dissected by a vertical 1m wide cleft in the eastern upper portion of the large quarry of Mészoköhegy of Villany, about 50m from locality no. 3, and is filled in its entire height by... terra rossa... and is very rich in fossils.' (originally published in Hungarian by Kretzoi (1956), translated into English in Janossy (1986)).
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Villány 6, Villany-Kalkberg Sud, Villány-Kalkberg Süd.
Database number:35459
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-12-16 03:47:51 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-12-16 03:47:51
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
9534.PACED 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]