The macromammal remains and revised faunal list of the Somssich Hill 2 locality (late Early Pleistocene, Hungary) and the Epivillafranchian faunal change

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Gasparik, Mihály, Pazonyi, Piroska (2018): The macromammal remains and revised faunal list of the Somssich Hill 2 locality (late Early Pleistocene, Hungary) and the Epivillafranchian faunal change. Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 35: 153-178, DOI: 10.17111/FragmPalHung.2018.35.153, URL: doi.org/10.17111/fragmpalhung.2018.35.153 Abstract – The Somssich Hill 2 locality (South Hungary, Villány Hills) yielded the richest late Early Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Hungary and one of the richest ones from the Carpathian Basin.

The assemblage contains 67 distinguishable mammal taxa. The present paper gives the taxonomic, biostratigraphical and palaeoecological evaluation of 19 taxa of the sensu lato macromammal remains (leporids, carnivores, ungulates). The material indicates late Early Pleistocene age and represents the so-called Epivillafranchian faunal turnover and a dominantly cold steppe palaeoenvironment.