Osztramos locality 8: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Hungary

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Rosales - Ulmaceae
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753
223 specimens
Reptilia - Strigiformes - Strigidae
Asio aff. flammeus (Pontoppidan 1763)
1 specimen
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Hirundinidae
Hirundo cf. rustica Linnaeus 1758
13 specimens
Reptilia - Phasianidae
Lyrurus partium Kretzoi 1962
1 specimen
Francolinus capeki Lambrecht 1933
1 specimen
Reptilia - Anguidae
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803
56 specimens
Reptilia - Lacertilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
30 specimens
Reptilia - Ophidia
Ophidia indet. Latreille 1804
244 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
2 specimens
recombined as Stephanorhinus etruscus
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
122 specimens
Cervus s.l. 2 species. species 1 (Rusa group, 120 specimens), species 2 (Euctenoceros group, 2 specimens).
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
3 specimens
large size
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis aff. arnensis Del Campana 1913
1 specimen
Canis sp. (aff. arnensis)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
large size
Mustela aff. palerminea
3 specimens
Meles aff. atavus
1 specimen
Meles sp. (aff. atavus)
Mammalia - Talpidae
Desmana sp. Guldenstaedt 1777
2 specimens
(thermalis group)
Talpa fossilis Petenyi 1864
12 specimens
Mammalia - Soricidae
Crocidura aff. obtusa
15 specimens
Crocidura aff. kornfeldi Kormos 1934
5 specimens
Beremendia fissidens (Petényi 1864)
51 specimens
Neomys sp. Kaup 1829
2 specimens
Soriculus sp. Blyth 1845
2 specimens
Soriculus group
Petenyia hungarica Kormos 1934
2 specimens
Drepanosorex margaritodon
17 specimens
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911
56 specimens
Sorex cf. minutus Linnaeus 1766
21 specimens
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceus ostramosi
15 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix major
14 specimens
Hystrix vinogradovi
33 specimens
Hystrix vinogradovi atavus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Lagurus arankae
369 specimens
52 lower M1, plus 317 other molars.
Cricetus cricetus (Linnaeus 1758)
88 specimens
Cricetus cricetus nanus
Mimomys "newtoni"
11 specimens
11 lower M1
Mimomys pusillus
34 specimens
34 lower M1
Mimomys sp. Forsyth-Major 1902
389 specimens
9 lower M1, plus 380 other molars.
Lemmus sp. Link 1795
13 specimens
13 molars
Allophaiomys pliocaenicus Kormos 1932
234 specimens
34 lower M1, plus 200 other molars.
Allocricetus bursae
143 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus cf. sylvaticus (Linnaeus 1758)
88 specimens
original and current combination Mus sylvaticus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Sicista praeloriger Kormos 1930
4 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Glis cf. sackdillingensis Heller 1930
8 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Citellus (Colobotis) sp. Oken 1816
30 specimens
synonym of Spermophilus
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
"Hypolagus beremendensis"
280 specimens
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
abundant
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus sp. Lacépède 1799
two species (1 large,1 small)
Rhinolophus macrorhinus Topál 1963
Topál 1979
n. subsp. anomalidens
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Miniopterus sp. Bonaparte 1837
Plecotus sp. Geoffroy 1818
Myotis cf. gundersheimensis
Myotis cf. schaubi
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829
Myotis cf. daubentoni Kuhl 1817
Myotis cf. dasycneme Boie 1825
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
215 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Urodela indet. (Duméril 1805)
6 specimens
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Hungary State/province:Borsodabaujzemplen
Coordinates: 48.5° North, 20.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.4° North, 20.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:305 meters
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: Biharian, Middle/Late Lower Pleistocene, late Villafranchian. In the text it is dated to earlier than locality 2, on the evolutionary stage of Allophaiomys, but in the tables it is later. Both locality 2 and 8 date between 1.5-1.0Ma.
'This locality lied at the foot of the north-eastern wall of section XII of the quarry, about 50-60m north of Locality no. 2, in a portion of the quarry opened in November, 1970.'
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: 'red clay'
Geology comments: The horizontal cave, about 100m long, is situated at an elevation of about 305m. At the very end of the hollow system, red clay dug out of the cleft communicating with the cave was found to contain the locality no. 8 of vertebrate fossils.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Most of the cave was blasted in 1972 and then exploited.
Metadata
Database number:35431
Authorizer:A. Turner, B. Allen Enterer:H. O'Regan, B. Allen
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-12-15 04:22:16 Last modified:2003-12-15 06:50:49
Access level:the public Released:2003-12-15 04:22:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]

Secondary references:

86905% 31320G. Topál. 1979. Fossil bats of the Rhinolophus ferrumequinum group in Hungary (Mammalia: Chirooptera). Fragmenta Mineralogica et Palaeontologica 9:61-101 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/B. Allen]