Hajnacka I/1: Villanyian, Slovakia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Polyporales indet.
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Reptilia
Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut borsoni (Hays 1834)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ailuridae
Parailurus hungaricus Kormos 1935
Question mark over presence
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Dicerorhinus jeanvireti Guérin 1972
recombined as Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Cervus perrieri - Arvernoceros ardei Formenkreis
Cervus pardinensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
recombined as Metacervocerus pardinensis
Capreolus sp. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758
Castor fiber ssp.
Pisces
Pisces indet. Linnaeus 1758
synonym of Osteichthyes
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Picea sp. Dietrich 1824
see common names

Geography
Country:Slovakia
Coordinates: 48.3° North, 19.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.2° North, 19.7° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Villanyian
Age range of interval:3.10000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Gauss epoch, Late Pliocene, MN16, Villanyian. There are two localities - Hajnacka I and II, one to the north and one to the south of Hajnacka village. This is the one to the south.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: tuff
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Hajnacka I/1 is in a tuff layer.
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: 'The fossils are found in limnic basin fillings with pyroclastic intercalations (tuffs, tuffite, lapilli, agglomerates).'
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: This material is in the Geologischen Instituts, Prague. Excavated by Kormos and published in 1915. The vertebrate fauna was found in a level characterised by 'Koniferenzapfen' (pine sap/amber) and limonite (limonitischen) concretions.
Metadata
Also known as:Hajnácka 1, level 1
Database number:41025
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-07-06 03:47:21 Last modified:2004-07-06 08:57:11
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-06 03:47:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11054.PACED O. Fejfar, W.-D. Heinrich, and E. Heintz. 1990. Neues aus dem Villafranchium von Hajnacka bei Filakovo (Slowakei, cssr). Quartärpaläontologie 8:47-70 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]