Vörös A. szerk.: Fragmenta Mineralogica Et Palaentologica 17. 1994. (Budapest, 1994)

SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION Order: RODENTIA Bowdich, 1821 Family: CRICETIDAE Rochebrune, 1883 Subfamily: Cricetinae Murray, 1866 Genus: Cricetinus Zdansky, 1928 Cricetinus beremendensis sp. n. (Figs. 1-3, 5, 8, 10, 15-17) Holotype: mandibula fr. dext. with ml-m3 (Figs. 1,3.). Paratype: maxilla fr. sin. with M1-M3 (Fig. 2.). Type-locality: Beremend 15, southern Hungary. Stratum typicum: terra rossa, karstic fissure filling. Age: MN unit 16a, Lower Villafranchian, Villanyian in the system of Mein (1975) and De Bruijn et al. (1992). In the zonation ofFejfar et Heinrich (1986) it refers to the Mimomys hajnackensis zone of the Borsodia-Dolomys stage in the Villafranchian. After the system of Jánossy (1979, 1986) it refers to the Beremendian phase of the Lower Pleistocene. Derivatio nominis: after the name of the locality. Diagnosis: small sized Cricetinus species, smaller than Cricetinus europaeus Kretzoi, 1959 írom Csarnóta 2. In the ml the anteroconid is undivided or weakly divided, the anterolophulid is mainly underdeveloped, mesolophid does not exist. Measurements of the holotype and paratype: Lml-3: 5.0L L: Wa: Wp: Ml 2.02 0.98 1.29 Ml-3: 46 M2 1.43 1.29 1.25 M3 1.22 1.11 ml 1.96 0.73 1.19 m2 1.64 1.26 1.26 m3 1.48 1.34 Preliminary determinations: "

Allocricetus éhiki" (Jánossy 1987, 1990) Material: 1 maxilla with complete toothrow, 10 maxillae fr. with incomplete toothrows, 6 mandibulae with complete toothrows, 20 mandibulae fr. with incomplete toothrows. 35M1, 39M2, 13M3, 54ml, 38m2, 40m3 Deposition: Department of Geol. and Pal, Hungarian Natural History Museum. Fig. 2. Toothrow of the paratype of Cricetinus beremendensis sp. n. Fig. 1. Toothrow of the holotype of Cricetinus beremendensis sp. n.