Coluber hungaricus Bolkay 1913 (racer)

Reptilia - Squamata - Colubridae

Alternative combination: Zamenis hungaricus

Full reference: S. Bolkay. 1913. Additions to the Fossil Herpetology of Hungary from the Pannonian and Preglacial Periode. Mitteilungen aus dem Jahrbuche der Kgl. Ungarischen Geologischen Reichsanstalt XXI(7):216-230

Belongs to Coluber according to M. Venczel 1994

See also Bolkay 1913 and Rage 1984

Sister taxa: Coluber acuminatus, Coluber beggiatoi, Coluber cadurci, Coluber caspioides, Coluber caspius, Coluber constrictor, Coluber dolnicensis, Coluber fossilis, Coluber freybergi, Coluber gervaisii, Coluber lafonti, Coluber lobsingensis, Coluber merkurensis, Coluber ombonii, Coluber planicarinatus, Coluber plioagellus, Coluber pouchetii, Coluber robertmertensi, Coluber suevicus, Coluber viridiflavus

Type specimen: HGI Ob-4464/Vt.76, a partial skull (a single right quadrate). Its type locality is Polgárdi 2, which is in a MN 13 sinkhole /limestone in Hungary.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Hungary (2 collections)

• MN 13 of Hungary (1)

• Miocene of Germany (1), Hungary (3)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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