Lower Pleistocene Betfian and Biharian substages

Vertebrate faunas of the last phase of the Lower Pleistocene (Betfian and Biharian substages) 

There are few signs of this stage of faunal genesis in Hungary. 

Of the former localities, only no. 2 of Nagyharsanyhegy provided any significant material of Allophaiomys hs single find from locality no. 5 of Villdny has already been mentioned). 

Kretzoi (1956) later attempted to separate the various localities of the quarry, but was only partly rewarded in his efforts. The only certain find of the locality, named Nagyharsanyhegy no. 1 by Kretzoi, is the already mentioned Prospalax priscus (Nehring), referring to the older Lower Pleistocene (Villanyian). I will return to the problem of the mixed faunas of the sites termed locality no. 4 of Nagyharsanyhegy and to the obviously younger localities nos. 3 and 6. 

From the western quarry of Nagyharsanyhegy (formerly called the Mauthner quarry, nowadays much larger than previously), we know of only one locality, no. 5 of Nagyharsanyhegy according to Kretzoi, which has since then been demolished. Kormos (1937b) mentioned the following species from this locality  

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