Osztramos locality 3 (Pleistocene of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (48.5° N, 20.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.4° N, 20.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Time: "Upper Villafranchian", Vallanyium, Lowermost Pleistocene

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; unlithified, condensed, brown, red siltstone and limestone

• Fissure fill - dark red-brownish soil; in between the soil there are some layers of strongly cemented calcit - 20-30 cm in thickness.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: D. 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39797: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 06.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• 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.
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Glis cf. sackdillingensis Heller 1930 dormouse
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
"Citellus cf. primigenius" = Spermophilus
"Citellus cf. primigenius" = Spermophilus ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
spp. small, big
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Dolomys" "episcopalis" Nehring 1898 mouse
"Dolomys" "kretzoii" Nehring 1898 mouse
Germanomys sp. Heller 1936 mouse
Villanyia sp. Kretzoi 1956 vole
Mimomys sp. Forsyth-Major 1902 vole
"pusillus-" or "simplex-group"
Mimomys cf. pliocaenicus Forsyth Major 1889 vole
Lemmus cf. lemmus Linnaeus 1758 Norway lemming
Trilophomys cf. schaubi Fejfar 1961 mouse
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917 rabbit
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona sp. Link 1795 pika
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Erinaceus "praeglacialis" Brunner 1933 hedgehog
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Petenyia hungarica Kormos 1934 red-toothed shrew
Sorex cf. praeminutus long-tailed shrew
Sorex "araneus" Linnaeus 1758 common shrew
Crocidura cf. kornfeldi Kormos 1934 white-toothed shrew
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Desmana sp. Guldenstaedt 1777 Russian desman
big
Talpa "fossilis" Petenyi 1864 mole
 Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus sp. Lacépède 1799 horseshoe bat
Rhinolophus aff. ferrumequinum Schreber 1774 greater horseshoe bat
Rhinolophus euryale Blasius 1853 horseshoe bat
ssp: praeglacialis
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis schaubi vesper bat
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
spp.
Myotis dasycneme Boie 1825 vesper bat
Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae