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Kordos, L.: Historico-zoogeographical and ecological investigation of the subfossil vertebrate fauna of the Aggtelek Karst 85-100. o.

with that of the sediment is uncertain because till now no uninterrupted stratigraphical column of Upper Pleistocene-Holocene age in the Aggtelek Karst has came to light. Fig. 1. Geographical distribution of localities yielding vertebrate remains near Jósvafő. 1 = Tücsök-lyuk Shaft; 2 = Ocsisnya-tető Plateau; 3 = Vass Imre Cave; 4-5 = Baradla Cave; 6 = Por-lyuk Cave; 7 - Csapástető Cave; 8 = Nagyoldal Shaft; f. = spring. The microfauna is represented by psychrophilous and hygrophilous vole species, e. g. Microtus agrestis

, M. oeconomus and M. gregalis and also Arvicola sp. Besides these the common hamster, requiring open areas, can be also found. Thus, the fauna of the Tücsök-lyuk Shaft represents a fairly special faunal association decisively determined by local microclimatic factors. At the same time those species which are important from the viewpont of age determination, such as Qchotona

, being always present in Old Holocene faunas of the surroundings, or mice (Apodemus

), appearing already in large numbers in the Preboreal pine and birch phase subsequent to the Dryas phases at the end of Pleistocene, are missing from this association. Although the lack of finds is not a positive proof, in the environs of Jósvafő, the Holocene of which is thoroughly exposed, it is not mere chance. Because of its generally cool and humid character the fauna could not be younger than the Atlantic Age. It contains again those immigrant and expansive species of the beginning of Holocene like Cricetus, Microtus arvalis

, Myodes sp. Therefore, its possible age is younger than the Dryas or the Pre-Boreal Phase.