Vörös A. szerk.: Fragmenta Mineralogica Et Palaentologica 13. 1987. (Budapest, 1987)

Dimensions (in mm): basal length basal breadth - ph III. post. (Plate VIII: 4). Old. Inv. Nr. 89. 1851.-265., new Inv. Nr. V. 60. 421. The characteristic ph III. has a narrow corpus, the margo anterior and solero exist, the proc. extensorius (pyramidale) is medially notched and bent; the tuber solearis is lateral. On the basis of these characteristics the find unquestionably, belongs to an Alces. Ovibos pallantis ssp. (H. SMITH, 1827) - "skull fragment"; frontale with sin. horn-core (the top has broken off) and dext. horn-core base fr. (Plate IV: 1, 2). Old Inv. Nr. 89. 1851.-266., new Inv. Nr. V. 82.23. The most famous find which came to light from the Lipova Cave is an Ovibos skull fr. Its earliest reference is the 1851 list of MNM. GÁO. J. S. PETÉNYI identified and registered it together with the 4 teeth as Ovibos fossilis. He published for the first time the species Ovibos in the species list of the Lipova Cave (PETÉNYI 1854). The Ovibos finds in the collection of the MNM GÁO. were published for the first time on the basis of the inventory book by KUBINYI (1856, Table 1., 2., 3). Later F. KUBINYI published again the Ovibos skull fr. of the Lipova Cave in the book entitled "The posthumous wor ks of J. S. PETÉNYI" but this time without mentioning the teeth (PETÉNYI, 1864). In his catalogue A. KOCH mentions the species from the Lipova Cave together with the sites Hrónicz, Rhonicz, Rhonitz (KOCH 1900). After it the Ovibos find of the Lipova Cave is mentioned by FRECH (1903) and this was taken over later by KOWARZIK (1912, Find Nr. 81). I. GAÁL mentions the "

Ovibos macken- zianus fossilis KOW." find in connection with the Zebegény Ovibos find (GAÁL 1933). W. SOERGEL, in his work on Central European fossil Ovibos

, cites R. KOWARZIK' s reference to the Lipova Cave and I. GAÁL's one to "Ronic". Thus in W. SOERGEL' s paper the Ovibos find of the Lipova Cave belongs already to two different localities: Nr. 62 - Lipova Cave; Nr. 63 - Ronic (one is located) below the other on the location map of the sites (in SOERGEL 1942). The latest reference to the Ovibos skull find of "Lipova Cave at Rónic" is in M. KRETZOI's paper dealing with Ovibos finds in Hungary (KRETZOI 1942, Taf. XXV, 4). Description of the skull remains: It belongs to an adult bull. It is broken and the pieces are glued together. Its right-side part was broken either when it was excavated or it was found already in its present condition. There is only the part over the orbits which have been preserved of the frontale. There is a semicircular linea on its surface and a small foramen in front of the right-side horn-core. On both sides the frontale has a straight wall below the horn-cores. The braincase has broken off, only a small piece of the left parietale has remained. Ahead the sinus frontales can be seen well (Plate IV: 2). The right-side horn-core is fragmentary, several sinus cornuales and sulci vasculosi can be found in it. The largest sinus cornualis (cavum) is at the back; it is at the border of the parietale-frontale. The posterior part of the right-side horn-core has broken off together with the brain case; its frontal part is worn. The left-side horn-core base is intact, its top has broken off, now it is missing. When the skull was found, this top still existed (KUBINYI 1856, Table 2,3). There is a caudolateromedial sulcus along the posterior 3rd part of the horn-core. The horn-core base has a medium length, its orocaudal surface is slightly concave, while mediolaterally it is convex (!). The sulcus intercornualis is narrow (its smallest breadth is 14 mm) and shallow (its depth is 10 mm). The horn-core is bent laterally downwards, vertically towards the sides of the skull, but it is not near to the frontalia. Dimensions (in mm): 1. orocaudal length of horn-core base 165 2. orocaudal length in the middle of horn-core 115 3. vertical diameter in the middle of the horn-core 76 4. orocaudal length of the end of horn-core fr. 75 5. vertical diameter of the end of horn-core fr. 50 P

3 19. 6 16. 1 P

4 22. 5 20. 1 M

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