Dr. Nagy I. Zoltán szerk.: Fragmenta Mineralogica Et Palaentologica 9. 1979. (Budapest, 1979)

Fragm. Min. et Pal. 9. 1979. The Revision of the Upper Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna of Seybold Stone Quarry at Kőszeg László KORDOS Hungarian Geological Institute, Budapest ABSTRACT. From 1905 on there were several paleontological gatherings in the rock-shelter being within the metamorphic rocks of the Seybold-Hill at Kőszeg (Western Hungary, the foothills of the Alps). The summarized fauna was considered as one which came to light from a single layer which was deposited in a period can be characterized by "postglacial" climatic osciUations following the glacial peak of Will.The Seybold or Szaybold Hill, otherwise known as Kenyér (Bread) Hill at Kőszeg is one of the localities of bones in Western Hungary known long before. In this locality several sporadic assemblings as well as minor excavations were carried out. For this reason the bones which came to light from there were scattered to several collections or they were lost; the material was published only in a small degree. Since the Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Western Hungary is only slightly known the nomenclaturial and biostratigraphical revision and up-to-date evaluation of fragmental faunas found in the Seybold Hill at Kőszeg is needed. The Locality Those finds which are published or treated in the collections as ones from "Kőszeg" one cannot verify unambiguously to derive without exception from there. At the same time with the coincidence of the collectors' names and of the dates of assemblings as well as on the base of the characteristic colour and micaceous cover of the finds it could be ascertained that they derived beyond doubt from the recesses of the quarry at Seybold HiU. In his 1911 publication Tivadar Kormos do not give an exact localization, however, he mentions that the finds came out from the fissures of weathered phyllite of a quarry to the west of Kőszeg. In all probability Kormos did not visit the locality and he know the specimens only from the 1904 assembling of the geologist Imre Maros. Later László Bende (Bendefy) in his books published in 1932 and 1934 quoted Kormos' data - although he often supplied the finds with wrong Hungarian names - and publishe the photo of the locality. In 1932 the Museum of Kőszeg made an excavation in one of the fissures of the Seybold Quarry whit the aid of the City Fire-Brigade (Székessy, V. 1937). In the summer of 1947 on behalf of the XIII. c. department of the Ministry of Finances Jenő Nos'zky made a geological reambulation in the surroundings of Kőszeg and collected vertebrate material, too. He already gives an exact localization of the finds whereas some of them came to light from the fissure fillings of the Seybold Quarry. The finds - several bones and a snail - were determined by Miklós Kretzoi (Hungarian Geological Institute MÁFI Documentation "Egyéb" N° 102; anonymously (but the comprehensive work of Földváry-Noszky-Szebényi-Szentes (1948) already contains his name. As for the finds scattered in different collections those which are in the Palaeovertebrate Collection of the Museum of the Hungarian Geological Institute are generally marked in their already revised cards and in the inverntory book as from "Kőszeg" except those the original cards of which have remained. In these original cards Szaybold quarry is written as locality and the 1904 assembling of Imre Maros is recorded, too. In the collection of the 11