Also known as "classic Polgárdi locality"
Where: Central Transdanubia, Hungary (47.1° N, 18.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 18.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: MN 13 (7.2 - 4.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; lithology not reported and limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: sieve,
• HGI = Hungarian Geological Institute, Budapest
Primary reference: M. Venczel. 1994. Late Miocene Snakes from Polgárdi. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 37(1):1-29 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69917: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 10.03.2007, edited by Torsten Liebrecht and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pseudopus pannonicus1 Kormos 1911 legless lizard mentioned in Table 1 of Klembara and Rummel 2018, no specimen no.s given
Anguis polgardiensis n. sp.2 Bolkay 1913 slow worm "? Anguis polgardiensis" - original material lost but this is given as the type locality. Some debate over whether it belongs to Anguis or Ophisaurus.
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Vipera "sp. 2" Laurenti 1768 pit viper "'European viper' group", 3 fragm. parietals, 12 vertebrae (HGI V.18984), the parietals were identifed as Vipera cf. aspis and Vipera cf. ammodytes by Szunyoghy (1932)
Vipera gedulyi n. sp. Bolkay 1913 pit viper 107 skull and mandibular elements plus 206 isolated venom fangs (HGI Ob-4467/Vt.74 = syntypes), 2 fragmentary dentaries and 1 fragmentary palatine (HGI V.13102/a, b), 1000 vertebrae (V.13103),
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Coluber caspius3, "Zamenis hungaricus n. sp." = Coluber hungaricus, "Coluber kormosi n. sp." = Elaphe kormosi, Elaphe praelongissima, Natrix cf. longivertebrata
"Zamenis hungaricus n. sp." = Coluber hungaricus Bolkay 1913 racer 1 right quadrate (HGI Ob-4464/Vt.76 = holotype), 1 fragm. basiparasphenoid (Ob-4463/1), 1 compound bone (Ob-4463/2), 2 maxillae (Ob-4465/2)
"Coluber kormosi n. sp." = Elaphe kormosi Bolkay 1913 colubrid snake 4 isolated skull bones (HGI Ob-4465/a, c, d and e = syntypes), 15 vertebrae (HGI V.19001)
Elaphe praelongissima Venczel 1994 colubrid snake 3 isolated skull bones (HGI Ob-4465/f, g, h = part of the original type material of "Coluber" kormosi), 75 vertebrae (HGI V.19003)
Natrix cf. longivertebrata Szyndlar 1984 water snake 7 skull bones (HGI Ob-4466/a to f), 2 fragm. compound bones (Ob-4463/b, c), 60 vertebrae (HGI V.18973)
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