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Alfréd Dulai: Late Palaeolithic Fossil Collectors: Small Piles of Molluscs at Szob (Börzsöny Mts, North-Hungary)

38 ISTVÁN VÖRÖS Bone length prox. breadth diaph. smbr. dist. breadth prox. diameter diaph. smd. dist. diameter Withers height humerus 395 139 59 ~ 107 150 69 112 163,5 radius 370 112 68 103 55 36 67 159,1 metacarpus 247 84 82 48 29 43 156,3 femur 500 174 55 1 :Î:'. 95 56 160 161,5 tibia 465 131 55 83 125 41 6® 160.4 ph.I.ant.

lat. 69 44 39 12 { 45 25 28 smbr. - smallest breadth smd. - smallest diameter Table 4. Egervár-Sárvíz canal. Fossil aurochs. Dimension of the postcranial bones (in mm) and calculated withers height (in cm) The aurochs skeleton found at Egervár in the Sárv íz canal used to belong to an aurochs bull of approximately 160,2 cm withers height. The comparable dimension of the Nagybajom fossil aurochs bull was 164,8 cm (Jánossy-Vörös 1981. 86). The withers height value calculated using Matolcsi's factor (Matolcsi 1970. 118) was 159,6 cm for the bones of the fore leg and 160,9 cm for the hind leg. The withers height values calculated from the individual long bones decreased from the proximal side: hum/fem. (163,5 - 161,5) - rad/tib. (159,1 - 160,4) and inc. (156,3), respectively. There is no direct evidence concerning the geological age of the Egervár aurochs. It is possible, that similar to the Nagybajom fossil aurochs skeleton, the bones originate from the Middle Pleistocene or the last interglacial period (R-W?). Photo by: Zsuzsanna D. Erdőkürti, Drawing: Krisztina Pavetits LITERATURE DEGERB0L 1945: Degerb0l, M. et Iversen, J., The Bison in Denmark. Zoological and Geological Investigation of the Finds in Danish Pleistocene Deposits. Denmarks Geologiske Undersogelse. II. Raekke Nr. 73. K0benhavn 1945. pp. 62. JÁNOSSY-VÖRÖS 1981: Jánossy, D. - Vörös, I., Pleistocene Skelettfunf des Ures (Bos primigenius Bojanus) von Nagybajom (Ungarn). Fragmenta Mineralogica et Paleontologica 10 (1981) 79-96. MATOLCSI 1971: Matolcsi, J., Historische-Erforschung der Körpergrösse des Rindes auf Grund von ungarischem Knochenmaterial. Zeitschrift für Tierzüchung unf Züchtungsbiologie 87.2 (1970) Hamburg 89-137.