Vörös István: Őslénytani dolgozatok (1998) / 740-743-1998
Vörös István: Mamutok Magyarországon
Fig. 1. Localities of mammoth skulls in Hungary. 1. Zalaegerszeg-Besenyői szőlők - 2. Tata- Porhanyó bánya - 3. Pécsbányatelep - 4. Dunaföldvár-GöbSljárás - 5. Dunaföldvár-FelsőgBböljárás - 6. Nagymaros-Töröktelek mező - 7. Nagymaros-"kurzer Riegel" - 8. Hont-Téglavető - 9. Sámsonháza - 10. Mátraderecske - 11. Apc-Kavicsbánya - 12. Hatvan-Sóderbánya - 13. Mende-Téglagyár - 14. The bed of Tisza at Fegyvernek - 15. The bed of Tisza at Fokom - 16. The bed of Tisza at Szolnok - 17. The bed of Tisza at Tószeg - 18. Tiszaföldvár-Téglagyár - 19. Nagyrév -20. Gyoma - 21. Egerszólát That is why the upper molars and tusks can be found so often and in a great quantity without the alveolar bones. From the occurence of mammoth bones it can be observed that - except the "mammoth breccia" at Jobbágyi, the quarry in the Mexiko Valley and the Paleolithic site at Bodrogkeresztur (VÖRÖS in press) - the maxilla and praemaxilla finds came to light from those localities where also the skulls (neurocrania) were found. Furthermore we can observe that at 12 localities of skulls from the 21 ones also the skeleton or skeletal remains of mammoth have been found. 11 mammoth skulls originate from river beds. The finding site of the neurocrania of skulls must be the place of death of the animal (autochthonous position of the skull and skeleton) or at least the place very near to it (allochthonous position of the skull and skeleton). LOCALITIES AND FINDS OF MAMMOTH SKULL (Fig. 1) 1. Zalaegerszeg-Besenyői szőlők (Besenyői Vineyards) On a hill of the Besenyői szőlők named Hosszu-Jánka, a nearly intact skeleton of a mammoth was unearthed in 1900 from the sandy loess of a gorge being in the right side of the Horgos Valley (BÖCKH 1904, KADIC 1911, JÁNOSSY & VÖRÖS 1979). The skeleton was in allochthonous position. From the skull and the tusk only their disintegrated fragments remained. Firstly the finds were transported to the General Grammar School at Zalaegerszeg and later into the Museum of the Hungarian Royal Geological Institute. In 1906 the two maxillae remained with dentition from the skull-bones were built in the skull made of plaster of Paris during the preparation of the skeleton of the "Zalaegerszeg mammoth" erected in the Geological Institute (BÖCKH 1906, KADIC 1911). The finds are in the Paleontological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Inv.no.: 98
