Osztramos locality 1/c: Early/Lower Pliocene, Hungary
collected 1970-1972
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Latonia gigantea
Lartet 1851
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8 elements | |||||||||
| 3 skull bones, 1vertebra, 1 scapula, 3 longbones (HNHM No.V.99.2) | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Discoglossidae
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Bombina sp.
Oken 1816
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2 elements | |||||||||
| 2 ilia (HNHM No.V.99.3) | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Ranidae
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Rana sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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12 elements | |||||||||
| 1 premaxilla, 1 scapula, 2 vertebrae + 1 urostyle, 7 ilia (HNHM No.V.99.13) | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Bufonidae
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Bufo viridis
Laurenti 1768
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| 2 fragmentary skulls, 1 urostyle, 1 ilium (HNHM No.V.99.11) | ||||||||||
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Bufo bufo
(Linnaeus 1758)
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10 elements | |||||||||
| original and current combination Rana bufo | ||||||||||
| 2 vertebrae, 1 scapula, 7 longbones (HNHM No.V.99.8) | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Pelobatidae
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Eopelobates sp.
Parker 1929
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11 elements | |||||||||
| 1 fragm. maxilla, 4 vertebrae, 6 longbones (HNHM No.V.99.6) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Vipera cf. ammodytes
(Linnaeus 1758)
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10 elements | |||||||||
| recombined as Vipera (Vipera) ammodytes | ||||||||||
| 10 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.39) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Natrix longivertebrata
Szyndlar 1984
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12 elements | |||||||||
| 4 skull bones, 8 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.43) | ||||||||||
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Coronella cf. austriaca
Laurenti 1768
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8 elements | |||||||||
| 8 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.28) | ||||||||||
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Elaphe sp.
Wagler 1833
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2 elements | |||||||||
| 2 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.33) | ||||||||||
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Elaphe kormosi
(Bolkay 1913)
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11 elements | |||||||||
| 1 supraoccipital, 10 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.30) | ||||||||||
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Elaphe praelongissima
Venczel 1994
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18 elements | |||||||||
| 2 skull bones, 16 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.32) | ||||||||||
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Coluber hungaricus
(Bolkay 1913)
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13 elements | |||||||||
| 13 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.25) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Lacertidae
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Lacerta sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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16 elements | |||||||||
| 2 skull bones, 10 dentaries, 4 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.17) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Anguis fragilis
Linneaus 1758
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10 elements | |||||||||
| 1 dentary, 9 vertebrae (HNHM No.V.99.19) | ||||||||||
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Pseudopus pannonicus
(Kormos 1911)
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3 elements | |||||||||
| 1 osteoderm, 1 frontal, 1 caudal vertebra (HNHM No.V.99.21) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Rhinolophidae
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Rhinolophus postdelphinensis n. sp.
Topál 1979
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Topál 1979 | |||||||||
| HNHM No.V.79.170 (holotype), left maxillary fragment with C, P2 and P4 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Hungary | State/province: | North Hungary |
| Coordinates: | 48.5° North, 20.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.4° North, 20.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Osztramos 1 | Local bed: | bone pocket "c" | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Based on micromammals, the age of the fauna may be defined as Lower Pliocene (MN 14) (KORDOS 1994; FEJFAR et al. 1998)" (Venczel, 2001).
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Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous breccia |
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: The fossil locality is a "bone pocket" within a fissure fill of Middle Triassic limestone. The fossil bearing sediments are described as "brecciated". | |
| Environment: | fissure fill |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | acetic,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1970-1972 |
| Collection method comments: " [...] the excavation of the entire material took place between 1970-1972 (JÁNOSSY & KORDOS 1977). [...] The entire material is deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum [HNHM] in Budapest" (Venczel, 2001).
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Metadata
| Database number: | 136067 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Mueller, B. Allen | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht, B. Allen |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-11-16 06:34:19 | Last modified: | 2012-11-15 13:39:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-11-16 06:34:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43517. | M. Venczel. 2001. Anurans and squamates from the Lower Pliocene (MN 14) Osztramos 1 locality (Northern Hungary). Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 19:79-90 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |
Secondary references:
| 8690 | 5% 31320 | G. Topál. 1979. Fossil bats of the Rhinolophus ferrumequinum group in Hungary (Mammalia: Chirooptera). Fragmenta Mineralogica et Palaeontologica 9:61-101 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/B. Allen] |