Vörös A. szerk.: Fragmenta Mineralogica Et Palaentologica 18. 1996. (Budapest, 1996)
Mustela palerminea Petényi; B/16: cranium-fr., 2 canini, P 4 , 2 humeri dist. fr., femur prox. fr., tibia (?= praenivalis), tibia dist. fr.; B/17: two maxilla-fr. with toothrows, mandible with teeth, 3 canini, os penis. Mustela praenivalis Kormos; B/17: cranium fr., 4 maxilla-fr., M 1 , two mandibulafr., femur. The determination of small Mustelids was carried out by the comparison of the corresponding anatomical units with the plus-variants of recent. M. nivalis viz. the minus-variants of the recent M. erminea of the comparative collection. The only complete extremity-bone, the tibia falls in size within the variation of the two recent species. Pannonictis sp.; A phalanx 1 in B/16 aroused the suspicion that Pannonictis is also present in the fauna. In 1994, an amateur collector, S. PONGRÁCZ (Györújfalu) found a complete mandible with the whole tooth-row of a smaller carnivore in the blasted material before the entrance of the cave. The measurements (length of the tooth-row together with the canine = 48 mm, height of the mand. = 17 mm) as well as the morphology of the M 1 (broad, cuplike excavated talonid, length of the tooth = 14.5 mm) compared with the type material of KORMOS (1931) strengthens the presence of the genus Pannonictis. A detailed description must remain for the future. Canis cf. etruscus Falconer; B/17: two phalanges represent the size category of a smaller wolf, for which I designate the given stratigraphical name: etruscus. Vulpes sp.; B/16: mc 2 . The bone agrees, in morphology as well as in size, with the same anatomical unit of Vulpes vulpes. Alopex praeglacialis Kormos; B/16: right and left mandible with whole tooth row; B/17: lower canine. The morphology as well as the measurements of the mandible (length of the toothrow, together with the canine = 56 mm, length of the M ! = 13.5 mm) speaks unambiguosly for the presence of the Arctic fox and not that of the Corsac. Later on we shall discuss the climatic significance of the Arctic fox in the (Mediterranean) Lower Pleistocene. Canis sp. (large form); B/17: a morphologically typical canid phalanx I digiti 1 is much more larger, as the corresponding bone of the recent wolf in my comparative material. Whether this originates from a large lycaonine (Xenocyon gigas), described by KRETZOI (1938) or from a large canide, remains an open question. Felis magna Schmerling; B/?17: a fragment of an upper canine of a small fel id, somewhat stronger as my recent Felis silvestris, may be designated by this stratigraphical name. Epimachairodus latidens Owen; the hitherto richest sabre-tooth material from Hungary was determined, except the dentition, with an "exclusional method", i.e.: large felid-bones, which seem to be different from the recent lion-bones of the comparative material in the Budapest-Collection were determined preliminary as machairodontid. The material originating at least from two individuals, merits in the future a monographical elaboration. We determined provisionally, with the collaboration of I. VÖRÖS (archeozoologist, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest), the following anatomical units: B/16: neurocranium-fragment, two (left and right) unworn upper caninus (Pl. I: 1) and a damaged one, lower caninus, I 3 ,P 4 , mandibula-fragm. with the P3-P4 (Pl. I: 2) , scapula-fr., humerus, prox.fr., ulna-fr., pelvis-fr., femur, dist.fr., patella, tibia prox. and dist.fr., calcaneus, 6-8 metapodial-fr., 5 phalanx-fr. A detailed
