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Numerous fossil remains (vertebrates, molluscs and plants) were found in more than twenty sites of the Sütt Travertine Complex during the last 150 years. The majority of these remains were recovered from fissures of the travertine, but also from the travertine and an overlying loess-paleosol sequence. The aims of this study were to review the Sedimentological and OSL data of well-dated layers of the loess-paleosol sequence (Sütt /LPS) at Sütt allowed a correlation with the layers of Sütt 6. The paleosol layer in the upper part of the sequence of Sütt 6, was correlated with a pedocomplex of the overlying loess-paleosol sequence, which was dated to MIS 5c (upper, dark soil) and MIS 5e (lower, reddish brown soil). The paleoecological analysis of the mammal and mollusc faunas supported the former interpretation of Novothny et al., inferring warm, dry climate during the sedimentation of the upper layers, and more humid climate for the lower layers). However, the fauna of the lower soil layer indicated cold climate, so an age of MIS 5d is suggested.Dating of the fissure faunas is based on similarity studies. For some faunas, this method cannot be used, because of the low number of species. On the basis of the species compositions and former interpretations, these faunas originated mainly from sediments that were deposited under cold climatic conditions. Other fissure faunas M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTwere dated by AMS 14 C (Sütt 16), or by correlation with soil layers of Sütt 6.According to these results, most of the fissure faunas can be correlated with different phases of MIS 5. However, there are a younger (MIS 2) and an older (Early-Middle Pleistocene) fissure fauna.