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Kordos, L.: Historico-zoogeographical and ecological investigation of the subfossil vertebrate fauna of the Aggtelek Karst 85-100. o.

Thus, from this region we did not have a knowledge of such "basic fauna" as was known from e.g. the Petényi Cave from the Bükk Mountains. Therefore, the age determination of the localities excavated by the author was somewhat uncertain. In the Dryas Phase (at the end of the Pleistocene) as well as in the Pre-Boreal Phase (at the beginning of the Holocene) psychrophilous and hygrophilous species of voles, primarity Microtus agrestis

, M. gregalis, M. oeconomus were dominant. Myodes did not have a large-scale diffusion yet, and Apodemus and shrews of warmer ecology (like Crocidura) had not reached the Aggtelek Karst yet (Tücsök-lyuk Shaft). During the Boreal Phase, which on the basis of pollen-analysis is considered as a dry warm age. Fig. 4. Percentage distribution of vole species came to light from localities yielding subfossil vertebrate remains near Jósvafő the above-mentioned species indicating a cool climate as well as Ochotona were still present. At the same time, however, species (Crocidura

, Apode mus) of southern areas appeared, the expansion of Myodes and Pit

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ys began (Ocsisnya-tető Plateau). The bat-fauna of the Vass Imre Cave (TOPÁL, 19 64) still contains specimens of high tolerance and of bigger posture than the recent ones resembling those which had existed before the climatic optimum .Among the micromammals from the entrance shaft, the rapid breeding of hamster (Cricetus) is conspicuous. The Atlantic fauna of the Bükk culture layer of Baradla Cave can be compared with the Bükk Mountains with the aid of an "isochronic surface" (Hillebrand Jenő Cave). At that time Microtus gregalis (13%)