Vörös A. szerk.: Fragmenta Mineralogica Et Palaentologica 16. 1993. (Budapest, 1993)

FRAGMENTA MINERALOGICA ET PALAEONTOLOGICA 16. BUDAPEST 1993. p. 81-87 Eucladoceros tetraceros (Dawkins, 1878) remains from the Lower Pleistocene at Sárbogárd (Mezőföld, Hungary) by I. VÖRÖS Abstract: The postcranial skeletal remains of Lower Pleistocene Eucladoceros tetraceros which were found near Sárbogárd (Mezőföld, Transdanubia are described in this paper. Comparisons show that E. tetraceros from Sárbogárd is the latest from the Eucladoceros line. In 1960, the No. 8 Bridge-building Management of the enterprise of public highways of Székesfehérvár (Székesfehérvári Közúti Üzemi Vállalat) sent a telephone message to the István Király Museum, reporting that animal bones had come to light in their working area at Sárbogárd - Nagyhörcsök-puszta. On the 4th of July of 1960 the archeologist Alán KRALOVÁNSZKY (IKM, Székesfehérvár) visited the area and after he had recognized the stratigraphie position of the remains he transported them into the István Király Museum at Székesfehérvár. He suggested to send the animal remains to the Paleontological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum at Budapest for determinig them. The postcranial bones of deer belong to the genus Eucladoceros. The Hungarian Natural History Museum had stored the remains under the Inventory number: V79.93. The data concerning the locality and stratigraphy of the Eucladoceros remains I describe here on the basis of A. KRALOVÁNSZKY

's field survey report (Manuscript - 5.07.1960., Documentation Department of István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár). LOCALITY The west great pit of the bridge pillar over the Sárvíz channel belonged to the new second-rate road built between Sárbogárd and Nagyhörcsök-puszta in 1960 (Text-fig. 1). STRATIGRAPHY The Eucladoceros remains were at a depth between 4.2 -5.9 ms below the present surface which is 99.50 m above sea-level, that is between 93.6 and 95.3 m above sea-level, in gray fat clay with calcareous lumps. Data from the bore-hole beside the locality: L, yellowish grey, dry fat clay (present surface), 2., light grey, lean clay, 3., yellow, fine-grained sand,