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

Botka, Dániel and Mészáros, Lukács (2018) Taxonomic and palaeoecological review of the Soricidae (Mammalia) fauna from the late Early Pleistocene Somssich Hill 2 locality (Villány Hills, Southern Hungary). FRAGMENTA PALAEONTOLOGICA HUNGARICA, 35. pp. 143-151. ISSN 1586-930X

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Abstract

The 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-by-layer overview of the specific composition of the fauna are presented here. The forms of cold grassy vegetation dominate in most of the strata, but the indicators of warm grasslands also appear in some layers. The appearance of forest species in most layers correlates with the presence of aquatic shrews. The 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.

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