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István Vörös: A Solymári barlang középső pleisztocén emlősfaunája

FOLIA ARCHAEOLOGICA XXXIX. 1988. BUDAPEST MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIAN FAUNA FROM THE SOLYMÁR CAVE István VÖRÖS About 1 km western of the village Solymár in the northern vicinity of Greater Budapest, there is a hill called Sziklás-hegy (Rocky Hill) which is the North-East member of the so-called Zsíros-hegy (Rich Hill) group of hills situated at the northern margin of the Buda Mts. A limestone quarry, opened in the northern slope of the Sziklás Hill contains several clefts, cavities and caves all yielding vertebrate paleontological finds. Because these localities yield paleontological materials of different age their careful separation from each other became necessary. Therefore further on Solymár A according my naming means the Solymár cave, while Solymár В means the Solymár quarry. Different parts and localities in the Solymár A: Solymár cave are denoted with numbers (Fig. 1.). 1. HISTORY OF RESEARCH Solymár A — Solymár Cave (or Ördöglyuk "Devil's Hole Cave") The present entrance of the Solymár Cave facing to the eastern opens at 25 m height at the end of the abandoned quarry at its northern-western margin. Its height above sea level is 325 m. The cave had developed hydrotermally in Triassic (Dachsteinian) limestone, its caverns have a complicated system which was influenced also by erosion. The length of all of its galleries is ca 2000 m, that of the measured main galleries is 809 m. At the turn of the century several tons of bats' guano were exploited from some of the halls of the Solymár Cave. The survey of the cave had begun in 1914. The first description of its route is known from 1924. The detailed descriptions of the cave and of its route are known from 1936

1. 1 Earliest mention of the cave Koch, Л. A csobánkai és a solymári barlangok. Földt. Közi. 1(1872) 97-103. The cave was measured by Kmetty В. and S^üts P. in 1914. In.: Bekey 1924„ 17., 19., 20.; Jellinek 1936.