Tardosbanya 3 (Miocene of Hungary)

Also known as Tardosbánya 3

Where: Komárom-Esztergom, Hungary (47.7° N, 18.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 18.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN 12 (7.8 - 7.2 Ma)

• Tardosbánya is generally regarded as MN 12 (e.g. Mészáros, 1998).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

• 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).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: HNHM = Hungarian Natural History Museum

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167676: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 27.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Elaphe kormosi Bolkay 1913 colubrid snake
"cranial bones, vertebrae (HNHM uncatalogued)"
Elaphe praelongissima Venczel 1994 colubrid snake
"cranial bones, vertebrae (HNHM uncatalogued)"