Vörös A. szerk.: Fragmenta Mineralogica Et Palaentologica 14. 1989. (Budapest, 1989)

FRAGMENTA MINERALOGICA ET PALAEONTOLOGICA 14. BUDAPEST, 1989 p. 101-110 Prodeinotherium petenyii sp. n. from the Lower Miocene at Putnok (North Hungary) By I. VÖRÖS (Received November 22, 1988) Abstract: A description oi Prodeinotherium petenyii sp.n, (Mammalia, Deinotheriidae) from the Lower Miocene sediments of the Putnok Coal Mine is given. Comparisons show that P. petenyii is one of the earliest form of the Deinotheres line. The underlying clay beds of the coal seams of Salgótarján- and Borsod Basins in North Hungary frequently yield Prodeinotherium remains (ÉHIK 1930, NOSZKY 1930, KRETZOI 1954, KORDOS 1985). From palaeontological point of view, the Prodeinotherium remains found recently at Putnok have a great importance, not only because besides the already destroyed holotype of the Prodeinotherium genus (a pair of mandibles from the Kotyháza coal mine in Salgótarján Basin, ÉHIK 19 30) the Putnok find represents the most complete pair of mandibles, but also because it has the most archaic form of the teeth and the curve of the symphysis mandibulae known so far. (That is, the small inferior tusks still point rather slightly forwards-downwards and they are not strongly downcurved, recurved in this specimen.) Prodeinotherium petenyii sp. n. Materials : corpus mandibulae sin and dext. with tusks and P3_4-Mj_2- The Pg sin. is fragmentary, the protolophid of the P

4 is broken off (Plate I, II). Some very fragmentary limb bones. Holotype: corpus mandibulae dext. withP

3-M

2 (Plate I, 1-3). V. 88. 5, in the Paleontological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Paratype: tusk fragment from Királd (Zsigmond main shaft! in West Borsod Browncoal Basin (ÉHIK 1930, KRETZOI 1954). Derivatio no minis: named after J. S. PETÉNYI (1799-1855) paleontologist of the Hungarian National Museum, who described the corpus mandibulae sin. with P4 fr. - M2 of a small species of Deinotherium from Boda (Bars, later Nyitra County, Slovakia) as "

Dinotherium n.sp. " in Inventory book in 1851. The small species, which called "

Dinotherium ' n. sp. " by J. S. PETÉNYI, differed from the large Deinotherium. Locus typicus: Putnok coal mine (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, North Hungary), Browncoal West Borsod Basin; 3rd level horizontal cut longwall face - H1 longwall face. Footwall of the lower 3rd coal seam; 20 cm below the coal seam in "grey clay". Stratum typicum: Early Lower Miocene; Zagyvapálfalva Formation, MN zone 3. Eggenburgian. Deinotheres evolution level: earliest Prodeinotherium phase. Collector: A. FARKAS master miner, at 15. 05. 1987, 4.00 a.m. Diagnosis: the new species is smaller thant he P

^cuvieri-hungaricum forms. The