Balogh Zoltán – Fodor Miklós Zoltán (szerk.): Neograd 2013 - A Dornyay Béla Múzeum Évkönyve 37. (Salgótarján, 2014)

Természettudomány - Hír János: Összefoglaló beszámoló a 2004–2013 között folyó litkei őslénytani ásatások eredményeiről

49-50. ábra. Néhány európai Cricetodon populáció Ml és ml molárisainak átlagos méretei.

C. meint 1 = Mühlbach., 2 = Antonios., 3 = Vieux Collonges., 4 = Komotini., 5 = Burg-Balzhausen., Li 1 = Litke 1., Li 2 = Litke 2.

C. aff. meint 6 = Gallenbach 2B., 7 = Rümikon., 8 = Sagentobel.

C. aff. aureus: 9 = Steinberg, 10 = Laimering 3., 11 = Laimering 2., 12 = Petersbuch 32., 13 = Rutzentobel 550 m„ 14 = Petersbuch 39.

C. aureus: 15 = Vieux Collonges.

Az adatok Daxner-Höck (2002), Vasileiadou & Koufos (2005), Mein & Freudenthal (1971), De Brudn et al. (1993), Boluger (1994), Rummel (2000), Rummel & Kálin (2003), Seehuber (2008) nyomán.

A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON THE RESULTS OF THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT LITKE BETWEEN 2004 -2013

JÁNOS HÍR

During the last decade significant new fossil microvertebrate faunae were collected by the author and his students from the intercyclic series in the Krétabánya Valley at Litke. The two localities (Litke 1 and Litke 2) are interbedded between the marine Karpatian and Badenian series. In this paper the description of the rodents is presented. The studied fossiliferous sediments are dark gray freshwater marl and diatomaceous earth. Its underlying bed is the Karpatian marine schlier (Garáb Formation). The over- lying bed consists of Badenian marine calcareous sands (Sámsonháza Formation). In this paper the description of the rodent fauna is given. The Litke material can be correlated with the latest MN5 faunas of Austria and Southern Germany because of the presence of the following species: Cricetodon meini, Spermophilinus besana, Paleosciurus sutteri, Miopetaurista dehmi, Megacricetodon minor, Democricetodon mutilus. Some faunal elements show relationships with the Central Asian Miocene: AUoptox katinkae, Miodyromys sp. Based on comparision with the Faunal Succession of the North Alpine Foreland Basin the age of the fauna can be estimated between 15.2-14.8 MY, which refers to the Early Badenian. The rodent fauna from Litke suggests more dry than humid environmental conditions.

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