Buda, Castle Hill

The first pebble spots containing faunas not of a sporadic nature were found in the freshwater limestone underlying rocks of Buda Castle Hill (Kadic and Mottl, 1944 already containing Parelephas trogontherii). 

If the faunas of the limestone conglomerates of the Buda Castle Hill are compared, it is clear that apart from rare local elements, assemblages only a few hundred meters apart are of the same geological age. 

Chronologically closely related to the faunal assemblages of Tarko and Vertes-szdlds are the faunas found in the freshwater limestone of the Varhegy (Castle Hill) of Buda (Fig. 20). 

Mottl (1942) was the first to report in detail Pleistocene mammalian fossils from the limestone and gravel of the Castle Hill of Buda, at an altitude of 150-160 m a.s.l. The material from the underlying gravel of the limestone is composed of macrofauna elements only, because the sporadic finds were found during building constructions. 

Fig. 20. Distribution of localities connected with the freshwater limestone formations of the Castle Hill of Buda. Numbers refer to houte numbers (see the text) the Hilton locality is indicated separately.

Kez, A., 1933. A budai virhegy teraszkavicsa. (The terrace gravel of the Castle Hill of Buda.) Foldr. Kozl., 61 (in Hungarian). 

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