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MAMMALIAN FAUNA Insectivora In many aspects the most important member of the fauna is the white-toothed shrew (Crocidura cf. leucodon) (Fig. 5). Its presence indicates well the interglacial climate, and at the same time suggests a stratigraphical relationship with two Riss-Würm localities: Süttő and Porlyuk Cave (Jánossy 1976, p. 39, fig. 5). It is supported by the fact that the measurements of the mandibles are larger than at the Crocidura leucodon-russula group, and approximate the measurements of the mandibles of Crocidura robusta Heller, which species was described from Lobsing bei Neustadt/Donau from the "letztinterglaziale" (last interglacial) beds. Another large form (Crocidura sp.) was described by Rzebik (1968) from the Tornewton Cave in England. She mentions that the stratigraphy of the small chamber, from where the remains were collected, was not clear. Her opinion is based on the two large sized Crocidura form (Crocidura robusta Heller, 1960 and Crocidura zorzii Pasa, 1952): "if they not only large members of the Crocidura leucodon-russula group, they probably belong to one and the same species" (Rzebik 1968, p. 260). (See Table 3) The dimensions of the Sorex araneus mandibles fall into the Late Pleistocene and Recent size category, but there are some large mandibles constituting transition towards the older forms, namely towards the Sorex araneus ssp. described by D. Jánossy from the Ördöglyuk Cave at Solymár (Jánossy 1966, p. 134), from the Fig. 5: Crocidura cf. leucodon from Tbkod. a: right mandible, Tbkod II/4, V9

1.166; b: posterior view of 5a; c: left mandible, Tbkod II/5, V.91.223