Tardosbanya 3: MN 12, Hungary

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Colubridae
Elaphe kormosi (Bolkay 1913)
"cranial bones, vertebrae (HNHM uncatalogued)"
Elaphe praelongissima Venczel 1994
"cranial bones, vertebrae (HNHM uncatalogued)"
see common names

Geography
Country:Hungary State/province:Komárom-Esztergom County:Tata
Coordinates: 47.7° North, 18.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.4° North, 18.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:MN 12
Age range of interval:7.75000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Tardosbánya is generally regarded as MN 12 (e.g. Mészáros, 1998).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: The fossils are preserved within the infill of a karstic fissure in Jurassic red marble of the alpidic basement of the Pannonian Basin (Mészáros, 1998).
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: HNHM = Hungarian Natural History Museum
Metadata
Also known as:Tardosbánya 3
Database number:167676
Authorizer:J. Mueller Enterer:T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-03-27 18:33:05 Last modified:2015-03-27 20:41:29
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-27 18:33:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

54746. M. Venczel and G. Vardai. 2000. The Genus Elaphe in the Carpathian Basin: Fossil Record. Nymphaea – Folia Naturae Bihariae 28:65-82 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]