Vörös A. szerk.: Fragmenta Mineralogica Et Palaentologica 18. 1996. (Budapest, 1996)

Amphibia-Reptilia; M. VENCZEL (Museum of Körösvidék, Nagyvárad, Transylvania) selected some species from the herpetological material of roughly assumed as 5000 fragments, their list is given here with his kind permission: B/16 B/17 Triturus eristatus x Bufo viridis x x Pelobates fuscus x x Rana esculenta-group x x Lacerta cf. viridis x x Natrix tesselata x x Elaphe cf. longissima x x Aves; remains of 45 species from the material of the two layers were published former (JÁNOSSY 1992). This bird material is the richest one among the hitherto known Lower Pleistocene ornithofaunas of Hungary. In the colourful material, the presence of an extinct form of storks (Ciconia stehlini Jánossy), as well as a small duck (Anas crecca percrecca Jánossy) is especially remarkable. Among Galliformes important osteological remains of Francolins (Francolinus [Lambrechtia] capeki Lambrecht) and of the extinct form of Black Grouses (Lyrurus partium Kretzoi) were found. The first proof of the presence of Little Crake (Porzana cf. parva), of the Waxwing (Bombicilla garrulus) and of the Calandra Lark (Melanocorypha sp.) in the Hungarian Lower Pleistocene ornithofaunas is given. Erinaceus cf. ostramosi Jánossy; B/16: fragments of 4 molars and those of a premolar and of a (dist.) humerus show the size and morphology of a small Erinaceus europaeus. Stratigraphically we can count with the presence of E. ostramosi. Talpa cf. fossilis Petényi; B/16: maxilla-fragm., two humeri, 3 phalanges manus; B/17: scapula- and ulna-fragm. The length of the intact humerus measures 16 mm (in recent T. europaea 15-18 mm) and falls, together with the other fragments, in the variation of the recent European species. Therefore we can count with the presence of the middle sized Lower Pleistocene form. Desmana thermalis Kormos; B/16: I sup., mandibula fr., phalanx; B/17: I sup., mandibula-fragm., ulna fragm., 2 femora, calcaneus, metapodium and caudal vertebra. The only exactly measurable bone is the femur, the length of which measures 17.4 and 18.5 mm (recent 24 mm). This bone and all other remains are smaller and proportionally different from the characteristic features of this species (see JÁNOSSY 1965). Episoriculus gibberodon (Petényi); B/17: mandible, with the complete dentition, agrees with the typical material in measurement and morphology. Beremendia fissidens (Petényi); B/16: 7 maxilla-fragm., 11 mandibula-fragm., 3 I sup., 2 I inf., most of the material originates from B16/9. All fragments are typical. Sorex cf. runtonensis Kormos; B/16: 1 cranium-fr., 2 incisivus inf., 4 molar-fragm., 30 mandible-fr. Sorex minutus Linné; B/16: 5 mandible-fr., 1 inc. inferior. Sorex aff. margaritodon Kormos; B/16: cranium-fr., 18 mandible-fragm. Crocidura obtusa Kretzoi; B/16: 3 maxilla-fragm., 10 mandibula-fragm.