Polgárdi 2: MN 13, Hungary
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Pseudopus pannonicus
(Kormos 1911)
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Klembara 2012 | |||||||||
| mentioned in Table 1 of Klembara and Rummel 2018, no specimen no.s given | ||||||||||
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Anguis polgardiensis n. sp.
Bolkay 1913
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Klembara and Rummel 2018 | |||||||||
| "? Anguis polgardiensis" - original material lost but this is given as the type locality. Some debate over whether it belongs to Anguis or Ophisaurus. | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Vipera informal sp. 1
Laurenti 1768
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2 elements | |||||||||
| "'Oriental viper' group", 2 vertebrae (HGI V.18982) | ||||||||||
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Vipera informal sp. 2
Laurenti 1768
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15 fragments | |||||||||
| "'European viper' group", 3 fragm. parietals, 12 vertebrae (HGI V.18984), the parietals were identifed as Vipera cf. aspis and Vipera cf. ammodytes by Szunyoghy (1932) | ||||||||||
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Vipera gedulyi n. sp.
Bolkay 1913
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1316 elements | |||||||||
| 107 skull and mandibular elements plus 206 isolated venom fangs (HGI Ob-4467/Vt.74 = syntypes), 2 fragmentary dentaries and 1 fragmentary palatine (HGI V.13102/a, b), 1000 vertebrae (V.13103), | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Coluber caspius
Gmelin 1789
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Szyndlar 1991 | 2 elements | ||||||||
| 2 compounds | ||||||||||
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Zamenis hungaricus n. sp.
Bolkay 1913
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5 elements | |||||||||
| recombined as Coluber hungaricus | ||||||||||
| 1 right quadrate (HGI Ob-4464/Vt.76 = holotype), 1 fragm. basiparasphenoid (Ob-4463/1), 1 compound bone (Ob-4463/2), 2 maxillae (Ob-4465/2) | ||||||||||
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Coluber kormosi n. sp.
Bolkay 1913
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19 elements | |||||||||
| recombined as Elaphe kormosi | ||||||||||
| 4 isolated skull bones (HGI Ob-4465/a, c, d and e = syntypes), 15 vertebrae (HGI V.19001) | ||||||||||
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Elaphe praelongissima
Venczel 1994
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78 elements | |||||||||
| 3 isolated skull bones (HGI Ob-4465/f, g, h = part of the original type material of "Coluber" kormosi), 75 vertebrae (HGI V.19003) | ||||||||||
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Natrix cf. longivertebrata
Szyndlar 1984
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69 elements | |||||||||
| 7 skull bones (HGI Ob-4466/a to f), 2 fragm. compound bones (Ob-4463/b, c), 60 vertebrae (HGI V.18973) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Hungary | State/province: | Central Transdanubia | County: | Feiér |
| Coordinates: | 47.1° North, 18.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.9° North, 18.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | MN 13 |
| Age range of interval: | 7.24600 - 4.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Polgárdi 2 is a cave/sinkhole, formed by karstification of Upper Carboniferous 'crystalline' limestones (Freudenthal & Kordos, 1989, Scripta Geol. 89, 71-100). | |
| Environment: | sinkhole |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | sieve,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: HGI = Hungarian Geological Institute, Budapest | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | "classic Polgárdi locality" | ||
| Database number: | 69917 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. van den Hoek Ostende, T. Cleary, J. Mueller | Enterer: | L. van den Hoek Ostende, T. Liebrecht, T. Cleary |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-10 01:41:03 | Last modified: | 2015-04-07 17:35:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-10 01:41:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43584. | M. Venczel. 1994. Late Miocene Snakes from Polgárdi. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 37(1):1-29 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |
Secondary references:
| 54648 | J. Klembara. 2012. A new species of Pseudopus (Squamata, Anguidae) from the early Miocene of Northwest Bohemia (Czech Republic). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(4):854-866 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] | |
| 69175 | J. Klembara and M. Rummel. 2018. New material of Ophisaurus, Anguis and Pseudopus (Squamata, Anguidae, Anguinae) from the Miocene of the Czech Republic and Germany and systematic revision and palaeobiogeography of the Cenozoic Anguinae. Geological Magazine 155(1):20-44 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary] | |
| 70878 | Z. Szyndlar. 1991. A review of Neogene and Quaternary snakes of Central and Eastern Europe. Part I: Scolecophidia, Boidae, Colubrinae. Estudios Geológicos 47:103-126 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary] |