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FRAGMENTA MINERALOGICA ET PALAEONTOLOGICA 17. BUDAPEST 1994 p. 71-89. Cricetinus beremendensis sp. n. (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Pliocene fauna of Beremend 15. (S Hungary) by J. HÍR Hír. J.: Cricetinus beremendensis sp. n. (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Pliocene fauna of Beremend 15. (S Hungary). - Fragm. Min. et Pal, 17: 71-89. Abstract: The detailed description of the new species is given with the discussion of the systematic and stratigraphie relationships. INTRODUCTION Beremend is situated in the southernmost point of Hungary (Baranya County) 9 km from Villány. The limestone quarry of the village yielded the classical vertebrate faunae studied for more than a century (see in Jánossy, 1986). The fauna of the locality Beremend 15. was collected by Jánossy (1987, 1990, 1992). He gave the review of the material and the special study of the bird remains. From biochronological point of view the most important species are Estramomys simplex Jánossy, Mimomys cf. hajnac kens is Fejfar, Mimomys cf. hungaricus Kormos, Mimomys cf. pusillus Méhely, Mimomys cf. reidi Hinton, Mimomys cf. pitymyoides Jánossy & Meulen and Dolomys milieu Nehring. The aim of this paper is to give the detailed analysis of the small-sized cricetid finds of the locality Beremend 15. METHODS The measurements [LM 1-3 = length of upper toothrow; Lm 1-3 = length of lower toothrow; L = length of the toothcrown; Wa = anterior width of the toothcrown at the protocon(-id) - paracon(-id) or anterocon(-id) (on Ml, ml) height; Wp = posterior width of the toothcrown at the hypocon(-id) - metacon(-id) height] were taken by the ocularmicrometer of a stereomicroscope following the method by Pradel (1981, 1988) and worked out by the basic statistic parameters (N = sample size, min.-max. = observation range, X - arithmetic mean, SD = standard deviation). The dimensions are given in mm. The morphological investigation is based on the nomenclature of Fahlbusch (1964) and Mein & Freudenthal (1971). The strongly worn teeth were not counted into the morphological examination. In the morphological distributions "+" means the presence, and "-" means the absence of the investigated element.