Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 55. (Budapest 1963)

Topál, Gy.: The bats of a Lower Pleistocene site from Mt. Kövesvárad near Répáshuta, Hungary

the bats of a lower pleistoncexe site from mt. kövesváb

ad 145 is larger than that of the former two. it rather broadens and also extends strongly inwards and backwards. Among the recent ones examined by me, there are one or two similar ones, but their talons are without exceptions smaller than the other parts of the teeth. This tooth, by the way, strongly resembles M

1 of R. macrorhinus, but it is also smaller (fig. 6). The talon of M

2 extends inward, the inner margin is straightly truncate, also entirely different from the majority of the recent ones. The reduction (shortening) of M

3 is even greater than on the recent ones (fig.

7), and this is the character in which the Répáshuta findings differ most from the strikingly long and narrow M

3 of R. macrorhinus. The single right mandible, of intact processes, deviates from all recent mandibles studied. Aside of having the greatest recent measurements, the proc. coronoideus is strongly expanding, broadly rounded, and its edge, leading to the proc. articularis, is flatly decurrent (fig.

3). On the recent one, the narrow and reclinate edge of the proc. coronoideus is deeply arcuate. The proc. angularis is deeply deflected, longer than on any recent mandible. The size of the lower canine, when viewed apically, is larger than in most of the recent animals. From above, P

4 differs from the majority of recent specimens in the buccal-oral margin of the tooth subtending nearly a right angle with the sagittal axis of the mandible, but acute in the recent one (fig.

4). Despite some agreements with R. macrorhinus

, our findings probably represent a specialized side-line, but one might also presume that the material is not wholly uniform. Rhinoloplius ,,cf. ferrumequinum

" is known from the Lower Pleistocene of Villány and the! younger Püspökfürdő formation in the Carpathian Basin. R. macrorhinus and the Répáshuta remnants assert that we are dealing with more than one form. For the final clarification of the problem, a thorough study of the findings is needed. Myotis cf. mystaeinus KUHL Right upper C, P

4; left M

2, mandible with —M

2. The remains probably represent a single specimen. Length of M

2 1,24 mm, width of M- 1,60 mm, length of INI

1 1,16 mm. Fig. 8. Myotis cf. delicatus, left P

4 ( x 9). — Fig. 9. Myotis cf. delicatus left M'(x9). — Fig. 10. Myotis cf. baranensis, left M

2 ( X 9). — Fig. 11. Myotis oxygnathus,distal end of humerus, posterior view( x 6). — Fig. 12. Myotis cf. baranensis, distal end of humerus, posterior view ( X 6). Fig. 13. Myotis dasycneme, distal end of humerus, posterior view ( X 6). — Fig. 14. Myotis cf. baranensis, distal end of humerus, inferior view ( X 6). — fig. 15. Myotis dasycneme, distal end of humerus, inside view (x6). — Fig. 1G. Myotis cf. baranensis, distal end of humerus, inside view ( x 6). 10 Természettudományi Múzeum Évkönyve —9