Polgárdi 4 "Lower": Turolian, Hungary

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Anguidae
Pseudopus pannonicus (Kormos 1911)
Venczel 2006
MÁFI V.06.1677.3, 1 trunk vertebra, 2 osteoderms; MÁFI V.06.1680.26, 26 osteoderms
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803
Venczel 2006
MÁFI V.06.1676.4, 1 dentary, 1 maxilla, 2 osteoderms; MÁFI V.06.1678.6, 5 osteoderms, 1 maxilla; MÁFI V.06.1679.25, 16 trunk vertebrae, 9 caudal vertebrae
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Lacertidae (informal Species A) indet. Bonaparte 1831
Venczel 2006
MÁFI V.06.1674.5, 5 dentaries
Lacertidae (informal Species B) indet. Bonaparte 1831
Venczel 2006
MÁFI V.06.1675.26, 26 vertebrae
Lacerta cf. viridis (Laurenti 1768)
Venczel 2006
MÁFI V.06.1668.1, 1 maxilla; MÁFI V.06.1669.2, 2 dentaries; MÁFI V.06.1670.2, 2 premaxillae; MÁFI V.06.1671.1, 1 jugal; MÁFI V.06.1672.8, 8 maxillae; MÁFI V.06.1673.16, 16 dentaries
Reptilia - Colubridae
Elaphe szyndlari Venczel 1998
9 specimens
Telescopus sp. Waner 1830
7 specimens
Coronella miocaenica Venczel 1998
130 specimens
Coluber hungaricus (Bolkay 1913)
120 specimens
Reptilia - Crotalidae
Macrovipera gedulyi (Bolkay 1913)
25 specimens
recombined as Vipera (Daboia) gedulyi
see common names

Geography
Country:Hungary
Coordinates: 47.1° North, 18.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.8° North, 18.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Turolian
Age range of interval:8.70000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Local fissure fill
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,survey of museum collection
Collection size:291
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:48295
Authorizer:J. Head, R. Butler Enterer:J. Head, J. Benito Moreno
Modifier:J. Head Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-15 18:59:11 Last modified:2005-03-15 21:08:40
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-15 18:59:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12909. M. Venczel. 1998. Late Miocene snakes (Reptilia: Serpentes) form Polgárdi (Hungary): a second contribution. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 41:1-22 [J. Head/J. Head/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

56814 M. Venczel. 2006. Lizards from the Late Miocene of Polgárdi (W-Hungary). Nymphaea, Folia naturae Bihariae 33:25-38 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]