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Jánossy, D.: The boundary of the Plio-Pleistocene based on the Microvertebrates in North Hungary (Osztramos Locality 7) 101-112. o.

The whole picture of the animal assemblage is chiefly of an Uppermost Pliocene one

. Ancestral Insectivorous mammals, such as Petényia hungarica, Episoriculus gibberodo

n, Petényiella grac

ili

s, Beremendia fissiden

s and Blarinoides maria

e appear - partially surviving also up to the Middle Pleistocene (as Petényia Mimomys hungaricus Kormos • Dolomys

• krttzoit Kowalski Ositramos Loc.3 Pig. 2.: Upper and lower tooth rows from identical individuals (fossilized together) from Locality 3 Osztramos: a)

Mimomys hungaricu

s KORMOS; b

; "Dolomys" kretzoii KOWALSKI ' 2. ábra: Azonos egyedektol származó alsó és felső fogsorok az Osztramos 3. lelőhelyről (együtt fosszilizálódva) ; a) Mimomys hungaricus KORMOS; b) "Dolomys" kretzoii KOWALSKI and Beremendi

a

) - but on the other hand typical Pliocene elements (the three other genera) prevail. The close relation, nearly the identity of the microfauna-assemblage of Osztramos 7 with that of Csarnóta in Hungary, as well as Weze and Rebielice in Poland and last but not least of the Arondelli local fauna in North Italy (see KRETZOI

, 1962, SULIMSKI, 1959, KOWALSKI, 1960a,b, BERCI and MICHAUX, 1967, MICHAUX, 1972) speaks unambiguously for a geological contemporanity

. Mimomys "stehlini

", the typical form of the West European Plio-Pleistocene boundary-faunas - predominates (see fig. 1.). This form seems to be very near - among others - one of the Odessa Mimomys-Polomy

s species too (PIDOPLITCHKA, 1956).