St Margarethen - general unspecified (Pleistocene of Austria)

Where: Upper Austria, Austria (48.3° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 14.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Middle Pleistocene, no further info given

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• Snake fossil suggests terrestrial but no specific details given

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Szyndlar. 1991. A review of Neogene and Quaternary snakes of Central and Eastern Europe. Part I: Scolecophidia, Boidae, Colubrinae. Estudios Geológicos 47:103-126 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206584: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 20.11.2019

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Coluber viridiflavus Lacépède 1789 racer
"8 parietal fragments, 10 supraoccipitals, 6 basiparasphenoid fragments, 5 basioccipitals and basioccipital fragments, 19 prootics, 15 exoccipitals, 3 premaxilIary fragments, 7 frontals and frontal fragments, 4 ectopterygoid fragments, 33 quadrates and quadrate fragments, 17 compounds (UWPI 2350/3/1-61,64-73,68-89; not seen, flde Rabeder, 1977)."