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while its metacarpus and metatarsus are as long as, or longer than the respective bones of Libral- ces gallicus

. The diaphysis of the metapodia of Alces brevirostris are strong, wide and flat. There is only a small difference between the breadth of the lateral and medial trochleae on the distal epiphyses of the metacarpus and the metatarsus. Chronology of Alces brevirostris The stratigraphy of the sediment system of the Solymár-Ördöglyuk Cave is not yet completely known. L. VÉRTES published only a short, preliminary report on his excavations in the ÖrdöglyukCave; the stratigraphie al description of the cave is even less usable (VÉRTES 1950). The dark-red clay which contained the remains of Alces brevirostris runs along the cave from its uppermost point (Dicerorhinus kirchbergensis

) to its lowermost point. This layer is of Middle Pleistocene age. For lack of the chrono- and biostratigraphical evaluation of the whole faunal assemblage the age of the dark-red clay can be determined only as a wide spectrum: thus the chronological position of Alces brevirostris is the following - first half of the Steinheim Faunal Wave, Mindel - Riss (Elster Saale) Interglacial — Riss (Saale) earlier phase (KRETZOI & PÉCSI 1979). Scheme of the evolutionary history of the Pleistocene Elks Libralces-line A. latifrons-line A. alces-line Early Upper Pleistocene (R-W Interglacial) Late Middle Pleistocene (Riss) Middle Pleistocene (M-R Interglacial Early Middle Pleistocene (Mindel) Late Lower Pleistocene (G-M Interglacial) Middle/Early Lower Pleistocene 'L. carnutorum' 'L. carnutorum' L. gallicus L. minor A. latifrons postremus A. alces A. latifrons A. latifrons A. reynoldsi A. latifrons A. reynoldsi A. alces A. brevirostris REFERENCES AZZAROLI, A. (1952): L'Alee di Sénéze. - Palaeontographia Italica, 47 (1950 - 51): 133-141. AZZAROLI, A. (1953): The deer of the Weybourn crag and Forest Bed of Norfolk. - Bull.British Mus. (Nat.Hist.) Geol. Ser., 2 (1): 1-96. JÁNOSSY, D. (1969): Stratigraphische Auswertung der europäisch mittelpleistozänen Wirbeltierfauna. - Ber. deutsch. Ges. geol. Wiss., A. Geol. Paläont., 14 (5): 573-643. JÁNOSSY, D. (1979): A magyarországi pleisztocén tagolása gerinces faunák alapján. (Stratigraphische Gliederung des ungarischen Pleistozäns aufgrund Vertebraten) - Budapest, 207 pp. KAHLKE, H.-D. (1959): Die Cervidenreste aus den altpleistozänen Ilmkiesen von Süssenborn bei Weimar. III. Die Postkranialen Skelettreste. - Akad. Verl. Berlin, 44 pp. KAHLKE, H.-D. (1965): Die Cerviden-Reste aus den Tonen von Voigtstedt in Thüringen. - Paläont. Abh. Abt. A., 2 (2/3): 379-426. KAHLKE, H.-D. (1969): Die Cerviden-Reste aus den Kiesen von Süssenborn bei Weimar.- Paläont. Abh. Abt. A., 3 (3/4): 547-610. KAHLKE, H.-D. (1971): Cervidae. - In.: NIKIFOROVA, K.-V. al.: Pleistocene of Tiraspol. Kishinev, 137-156. (in Russian) KAHLKE, H.-D. (1975): Die Cerviden-Reste aus den Travertinen von Weimar-Ehringsdorf. - Abh. zentr. geol. Inst. Paläont. Abh., 23: 201-249. KRETZOI, M. (1946): Die Wirbeltierfauna aus dem älteren Pleistozan von Solymár. (Manuscript) KRETZOI, M. & PÉCSI, M. (1979): Pliocene and Pleistocene development and Chronology of the Pannonian Basin. - Acta Geol. Hung., 22 (1-4): 3-33.