Where: North Hungary, Hungary (48.5° N, 20.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.4° N, 20.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• "Based on micromammals, the age of the fauna may be defined as Lower Pliocene (MN 14) (KORDOS 1994; FEJFAR et al. 1998)" (Venczel, 2001).
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; calcareous breccia and limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1970-1972
Collection methods: acetic,
• " [...] the excavation of the entire material took place between 1970-1972 (JÁNOSSY & KORDOS 1977). [...] The entire material is deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum [HNHM] in Budapest" (Venczel, 2001).
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Primary reference: M. Venczel. 2001. Anurans and squamates from the Lower Pliocene (MN 14) Osztramos 1 locality (Northern Hungary). Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 19:79-90 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136068: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 16.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Elaphe sp. Wagler 1833 colubrid snake 3 skull bones, 1 compound bone, 60 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.34)
Natrix longivertebrata Szyndlar 1984 water snake 4 skull bones, 2 compound bondes, 27 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.36)
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Latonia gigantea Lartet 1851 frog 21 skull bones, 3 prearticulars, 26 vertebrae + 4 urostyles, 10 elements of pectoral girdle, 23 long bones (HNHM No.V.74.129)
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