Some insectivore (Mammalia) remains from the Late Miocene locality of Alsótelekes (Hungary)

Six Insectivora species (Plesiosorex sp., Florinia ef. stehlini, Allosorex ef. stenodus, Crusafontina endemica, Miosorex sp., Soricinae gen. et sp.) were found in the Alsótelekes Late Miocene fossil material. The incectivores allow for an allocation into the Early Vallesian MN 9 Zone. The fauna is indicative of humid, forested vegetation. The taphonornic features of the teeth suggest long transport by water before the lacustrine accumulation of the remains

Kordosia, a new genus for some Late Miocene Amblycoptini shrews (Mammalia, Insectivora)

A very rich and weil preserved Late Turolian soricid material (formerly named Amblycoptus topali JÁNOSSY 1972) is described, which have been found in Polgárdi quarry, Locality 5. Detailed anatomical studies of these remains constituted the basis for description of the new genus Kordosia and for drawing some phylogenetical and ecological conclusions. Morphological characters suggest this genus to be closer relatived to Anourosorex than Amblycoptus. On the basis of Mediterranean occurrence of Kordosia ? jessiae (DOUKAS1995), an other member of this genus, a relatively warm elimate is indicated

On nn-norm preservers and the Aleksandrov conservative nn-distance problem

The goal of this paper is to point out that the results obtained in the recent papers [7,8,10,11] can be seriously strengthened in the sense that we can significantly relax the assumptions of the main results so that we still get the same conclusions. In order to do this first, we prove that for $n \geq 3$ any transformation which preserves the $n$-norm of any $n$ vectors is automatically plus-minus linear. This will give a re-proof of the well-known Mazur--Ulam-type result that every $n$-isometry is automatically affine ($n \geq 2$) which was proven in several papers, e.g. in [9]. Second, following the work of Rassias and \v{S}emrl [23], we provide the solution of a natural Aleksandrov-type problem in $n$-normed spaces, namely, we show that every surjective transformation which preserves the unit $n$-distance in both directions ($n\geq 2$) is automatically an $n$-isometry

Soricidae (Mammalia, Insectivora) remains from three Late Miocene localities in western Hungary

The Soricidae fauna of Sümeg, Csákvár and Széchenyi Hill (Hungary) is presented. The following taxa were identified in the fauna: Dinosorex sp., Amblycoptus oligodon KORMOS1926, Crusafontina endernica GIBERT1974, Crusafontina vicina (KRETZOJ,1954), Blarinella dubia (BACHMAYER&WILSON,1970), Paenelimnoecus repenningi (BACHMAYER& WILSON,1970), Soricidae gen. et sp. indet. The soricids supply new additions for the determining the detailed stratigraphic position of the localites. Based on the shrew material alI the three assemblages are correlative with the Late Miocene (Sümeg: Vallesian, Csákvár and Széchenyi HiU: Turolian). The present soricids, occurred in these localities, are suggestive of well watered, wooded environments

Uppermost Pleistocene shrews (Mammalia, Soricidae) from Vaskapu Cave (N-Hungary)

Three shrew species (Sorex araneus LINNAEUS1758, Sorex minutus LlNNAEUS1766 and Sorex alpinus SHINZ1837) were found in the fossiliferous sediments of Vaskapu Cave, near Felsötárkány. The probable stratigraphical position of the sample is Upper Pleistocene, Pilisszántó Horizon (Upper Würm), about 15,000 years B.P. A cold period of the Late Pleistocene with wooded environment is indicated by the soricid assemblage