O. G. Dely szerk.: Vertebrata Hungarica 6/1-2. (Budapest, 1964)

Topál, Gy.: The subfossil Bats of the Vass Imre-Cave 109-120. o.

The remains had been lying on the surface, partly imbedded, that is, affixed to the substrate by the dripstone oozing from the walls. Henoe I was unable to collect the whole material, but I tried to gather completely all skulls and mandibles. Though the skeletons of the different individuals were not distinct from each other, and thus the bones belonging to the same animal could not be collected separately, it still happened rather frequently that, e.g., the skull and its two mandibles were lying side by side. In several cases, the teeth remained in situ both in the skull and the mandibles, nor had the cochleae and bullae tympani fallen out. All this implies that the animals had perished it i.his place, and their bones had at most been conveyed to some small distance by the water flowing down the walls, probably shortly after the decomposition of the bodies. The bony fragments found are generally poorly preserved, i.e., they are fragile and poroua

. It is presumably due to the natural death in this site that there are complete items also among the skulls. The color of the bones is yellowish white, but often reddish owing to the red clay of the cave. A number of the bones show some black spots of incrustation appearing in places of the rotting flesh. During heating, one can distinctly smell the burnt keratiné characteristical of organic materials

. In the followings, I propose to discuss the remains per species. I Bubmit in Tables the detailed measurement data and the variational-statistical parameters of Myotis natte- reri and Myotis bechsteinl

. Por the sake of comparison, I also list the data of the recent specimené of these species from the Carpathian Basin. Myotis nattereri KUHL Skull and rostrum 5 ex.

; right mandible 4 ex.

; left 2 ex. Left cochlea 1 ex. Humerus: right distal fragment 1 ex.

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