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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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.
Pseudopus pannonicus1 Kormos 1911 legless lizard mentioned in Table 1 of Klembara and Rummel 2018, no specimen no.s given
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Elaphe praelongissima, "Coluber kormosi n. sp." = Elaphe kormosi, Coluber caspius3, "Zamenis hungaricus n. sp." = Coluber hungaricus
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)
"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)
"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)
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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." = Vipera (Daboia) gedulyi Bolkay 1913 oriental 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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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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