Also known as Villány 8, level 12
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 35466: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 16.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Reptilia | |
Ophisaurus intermedius glass lizard | |
Ophidia indet. snake | |
Mammalia | |
Mustela palerminea weasel | |
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole
Talpa fossilis Petenyi 1864 mole | |
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Drepanosorex margaritodon red-toothed shrew
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew | |
Cricetus praeglacialis, Arvicola cantiana, "Microtus nivalinus" = Microtus, "Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus, "Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus, "Pitymys hintoni" = Microtus, Mimomys savini, "Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes, Lagurodon pannonicus, Allocricetus bursae, Pliomys episcopalis
Cricetus praeglacialis mouse
Arvicola cantiana vole
"Microtus ratticepoides" = Microtus vole
"Pitymys arvalidens" = Microtus vole
Mimomys savini vole
"Clethrionomys cf. glareolus" = Myodes vole
Lagurodon pannonicus mouse
Allocricetus bursae mouse
Pliomys episcopalis mouse | |
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
Spalax advenus blind mole | |
Sicista praeloriger Kormos 1930 birch mouse | |
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus
"Citellus primigenius" = Spermophilus ground squirrel | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
Amphibia | |
Pelobates cf. fuscus Laurenti 1768 Common Eurasian spadefoot toad | |
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768 toad | |
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog |