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Vipera burgenlandica
Taxonomy
Vipera burgenlandica was named by Bachmayer and Szyndlar (1987). Its type specimen is NMW 1986/3 (an isolated basiparasphenoid) and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kohfidisch, which is in a MN 11 terrestrial horizon in Austria.
It was recombined as Vipera (Daboia) burgenlandica by Zerova (1992).
It was recombined as Vipera (Daboia) burgenlandica by Zerova (1992).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1987 | Vipera burgenlandica Bachmayer and Szyndlar pp. 33-39 figs. 5, 6 pl. 1; text-fig. 1 |
| 1992 | Vipera (Daboia) burgenlandica Zerova p. 246 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Vipera burgenlandica Bachmayer and Szyndlar 1987
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F Bachmayer and Z Szyndlar 1987 | "Typical member of the group of "oriental vipers" of the genus Vipera characterized by a relatively short and broad basiparasphenoid, compound bone bearing high medial flange, basioccipital with long basioccipital process,as well as large vertebrae provided with moderately long centrum, strongly depressed neural arch, long and acute parapophyseal processes, and relatively high neural spine and hypapophysis." |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||