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15 shrew species with more than 8000 specimens were identified from 10 Hungarian Upper Miocene (Vallesian and Turolian = Pannonian and Pontian, cca. 11-5.5myr) localities (Alsótelekes, Rudabánya, Sümeg, Csákvár, Tardosbanya. Széchenyi Hill, Egyházasdengeleg, Polgárdi 2., 4., 5.) However, except for the recent excavations of the Rudabánya hominoid localities, there were no taphonomical studies during the collecting work we can find some taphonomic features on the remains in themself. The Rudabánya and Alsótelekes Soricids deposited by water into a lake or a swamp, but the intense breakage pattern of the Alsótelekes sample could have been caused by long fluviatile transport before the lacustrine accumulation, while the Rudabánya shrews could have died by, or in the swamp. The animalian transport played important part in the accumulation of the Sümeg, Csákvár and Széchenyi Hill material, but some of the Csákvár remains were transported also by water. The exceptionally rich and well preserved Polgárdi bones and teeth were deposited by a pit-fall accumulation. The taphonomy of the Tardosbánya soricids is somewhat more complex, there could have been a pit-fall accumulation, transport by predators as well as a water-transport here.
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