The lowermost Pleistocene rodent and soricid (Mammalia) fauna from Beremend 14 locality (South Hungary) and its Biostratigraphical and palaeoecological implications

Pazonyi, Piroska; Mészáros, Lukács; Hír, János; Szentesi, Zoltán

doi:10.17111/fragmpalhung.2016.33.99

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“…Th e enclosed fl owstone fragment refers to reworking of speleothems, reported from other vertebrate sites of the area as well (Pazonyi et al 2018). Th e abundance of snake vertebrae indicates that the cavity where the bone breccia accumulated was directly open to the surface and snakes could fall into it, similarly to several other fossil sites of the Villány Hills (Szentesi 2016;Pazonyi et al 2016Pazonyi et al , 2018Pazonyi et al , 2019.…”

Section: Bone Breccia Of Siklósmentioning

confidence: 67%

New Pleistocene vertebrate assemblages from the Villány Hills (SW Hungary): Siklós and Palkonya

Sebe,

Gasparik,

Szentesi

et al. 2023

Fragm Palaeont Hung

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The Villány Hills in SW Hungary have the richest archive of Pliocene–Quaternary vertebrate faunas in the Pannonian Basin, mostly in karstic cavities. Here we present three new sites that extend the list of Pleistocene vertebrate locations for the area and add information to the evolution history of the region. In the northern part of the Siklós quarry, bone breccia was found coming from fissures in Jurassic or Cretaceous limestones. Its lithofacies and fossil content are similar to those of other well-known Plio-Pleistocene karst infills of the region. As it contained mostly snake vertebrae, its age could not be constrained precisely. In the southern part of the same quarry, two vertical shaft s were discovered, which are unusual in several respects. Th ey formed in a Middle Triassic dolomite succession, a rock type generally not prone to karstification. Th ey might have been created by gravitational deformation of the relatively steep slope, probably at diff erent times. One of them was closed from above and contained fl owstones precipitated during the late Middle Pleistocene, during the late Rissian MIS7 interglacial. The other one was filled from above with loess, rock fragments and remains of large mammals – Equus cf. ferus, Bos primigenius and Coelodonta antiquitatis –, possibly between 140–40 ka, during one of the stadials of the Weichselian or the latest Saalian. The site shows that fossil-bearing cavities could also form in lithologies not favourable for karstification, which then trapped fossils in a similar way karstic cavities do. In contrast with the previous two and with most of the other known vertebrate sites of the Villány Hills, the Palkonya outcrop is not a karst cavity fill but was deposited on the (palaeo)surface. Bison sp., possibly B. schoetensacki remains were found between the Triassic basement and Quaternary slope sediments, and within the latter succession. The Bison bones are probably Middle Pleistocene or late Early Pleistocene, older than ~300 ka. The overlying slope sediments originate from the reworking of various older deposits. Th ey were covered with loess in the Weichselian (~22 ka ago), then again with slope deposits. The abundance of bones in and around the outcrop suggests that this site acted as a fossil trap as well. Bones probably enriched in the sediments during reworking of older deposits. In cold periods, loess deposition decreased (subdued) the relief through infilling the depressions. With 21 figures and 3 tables.

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confidence: 67%

New Pleistocene vertebrate assemblages from the Villány Hills (SW Hungary): Siklós and Palkonya

Sebe,

Gasparik,

Szentesi

et al. 2023

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“…Th e presence of river or lakeside is marked by Sorex (Drepanosorex) savini as well (Reumer 1984;Maul & Parfitt 2010). Beremendia is ranged to the "water-indicator or opportunist" group (see Pazonyi et al 2016b) in our ecotype reconstruction (Table 2). Examining the ecological composition of the complete Soricidae fauna, the dominance of the cold steppe indicator Sorex runtonensis is clearly conspicuous (Fig.…”

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Taxonomic and palaeoecological review of the Soricidae (Mammalia) fauna from the late Early Pleistocene Somssich Hill 2 locality (Villány Hills, Southern Hungary)

Botka¹,

Mészáros²

2018

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Th e present paper is the concluding part of the series describing the Soricidae fauna of the late Early Pleistocene Somssich Hill 2 locality, Southern Hungary. Th e assemblage includes 9 shrew forms: 3 Sorex, 2 Crocidura, 2 Beremendia, 1 Asoriculus, and 1 Neomys species. Th e taxonomic results of the study are summarized, and some new ecological conclusions drawn from the layer-bylayer overview of the specifi c composition of the fauna are presented here. Th e forms of cold grassy vegetation dominate in most of the strata, but the indicators of warm grasslands also appear in some layers. Th e appearance of forest species in most layers correlates with the presence of aquatic shrews. Th e ratio of cold and warm-indicating species varies in the layers, but dominance of cold indicators decreases in the second half of the succession, while the number of forest and warm indicators increases. With 2 fi gures and 2 tables.

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“…Beremend site is located 10 km south from the Villány Hills and the city of Villány, in Southern Hungary (Figure 1C). The flat limestone hill is covered by loess-paleosol succession and its altitude is 174 m. Pliocene-Pleistocene mammalian faunas were discovered from the karst cavities (with red clay infilling) of Lower Cretaceous limestone (Pazonyi et al, 2016). This carbonate rock suite (Nagyharsány Limestone) is a 400-500 m thick Urgon facies limestone (Császár, 2002).…”

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Plio-Pleistocene Dust Traps on Paleokarst Surfaces: A Case Study From the Carpathian Basin

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Plio-Pleistocene silt/clay-rich deposits and paleo-karst fissure sediments from sites of the northern and southern parts of the Carpathian Basin were investigated. These materials were supposed to be mixed during transport before being captured in karstified fissures. Evidence that the eolian fissure sediments of Plio-Pleistocene age in the older Triassic-Cretaceous limestones are derived from eolian silt and clay includes compositional and textural matches, especially decreasing grain-size trends observed downwards from the paleo-surface of the former landscape. Various environmental factors could be recognized by the statistical evaluation of grain-size distribution curves of fissure fillings sediments, such as the effects of eolian transport, parent rock type, weathering, and other sediment transport processes. Grain-size distribution curves with a single maximum in the silt size range are typical for the overlying siltstone debris, for the redeposited loess and red paleosol underlying the loess. Red clay fissure fillings yield bimodal grain-size distribution curves with maxima both in the clay and silt fractions. The research reported in this paper identifies for the first time the presence of eolian deposits in karst fissures of the Carpathian Basin and investigates the characteristics and origin.

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The lowermost Pleistocene rodent and soricid (Mammalia) fauna from Beremend 14 locality (South Hungary) and its Biostratigraphical and palaeoecological implications

Cited by 8 publications

References 11 publications

New Pleistocene vertebrate assemblages from the Villány Hills (SW Hungary): Siklós and Palkonya

New Pleistocene vertebrate assemblages from the Villány Hills (SW Hungary): Siklós and Palkonya

Taxonomic and palaeoecological review of the Soricidae (Mammalia) fauna from the late Early Pleistocene Somssich Hill 2 locality (Villány Hills, Southern Hungary)

Plio-Pleistocene Dust Traps on Paleokarst Surfaces: A Case Study From the Carpathian Basin

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