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mu

s from the Lower Pleistocene were found also in Germany in the last years (e

. g. Schernfeld and Deinsdorf, HELLER, 1963, 1967). There are two problems connected with this exposition. On the one hand, the connection of macrofaunistic and microfaunistic successions is not wholly correlated .This problem may be solved in the near future by the revolutionary development of the screening and washing method, presumably settling this question in many localities. On the other hand, there is a great number of localities - as far as I know,the chief ones of the Lower Pleistocene complexes being in the Soviet Union, as the Limans of Moldavia and Southern Ukraina (SHEWTCHENKO, 1965, ALEXANDROWA

, 1965, TOPATCHEWSKIJ, 1965 etc.) - within the Submediterranean-Pontic climatic belt

. We may thus not expect any glaciation effects in the above-mentioned faunas (except for the influence of the Last Glaciation as indicated in the Crimean Peninsula, with the appear ence of Microtus gregali

s and Lagopu

s

; I GROMOW, 1961, WOINSTWENSKIJ, 1967). In some more northern Parts of the Soviet Union, the Middle Pleistocene fauna of Chortkow (the Tarnopol District) also contains Lemmu

s (PIDOPLITCHKA, 1955). The faunistically well defined stratigraphie units of the Pleistocene seem to be widespread in the larger part of the Northern Hemisphere

. Therefore we may extrapolate the stages characterized by "cold indicators" through common faunistic elements to the southern and perhaps to eastern ranges, in which the faunistic expression of the climatic deteriorations (and ameliorations) are not so clearly pronounced. Stratigraphical sketch of the localities near the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary in Middle Europe. A plio-pleisztocén határához közeleső lelőhelyek rétegtani vázlata Közép-Európában. 108