Vipera antiqua
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| Early Miocene | ||||||||||||
| approx. 20 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Vipera antiqua | ||||||||||||
| Szyndlar , 1987 | ||||||||||||
Vipera antiqua is an extinct species of the real otters (genus Vipera ) within the vipers (Viperidae). Remains of the species have been found in the Czech Republic and Germany. The species is dated to the early Miocene , with a find from the ELMMZ zone MN 1 ( Mammals Neogen in Biostratigraphy ) it is the oldest known fossil species of the genus Vipera .
Vipera antiqua was described after several fossil vertebral bodies from a find in Dolnice in the Czech Republic, the material is kept at the Institute of Paleontology at the Charles University in Prague . Two other locations for vortices of the species are in Petersbuch and Weisenau in Germany. All finds come from the Lower Miocene (MN 1 to MN 4) and are accordingly around 20 million years old.
Vipera antiqua was first described and assigned to the genus Vipera by Zbigniew Szyndlar in 1987.
Individual evidence
- ^ Vipera antiqua in The Paleobiology Database , accessed October 22, 2014.
literature
- Zbigniew Szyndlar, Jean-Claude Rage: Fossil Record of the True Vipers. In: Gordon W. Schutt, Mats Höggren, Michael E. Douglas, Harry W. Greene (Eds.): Biology of the Vipers. Eagle Mountain Publishing, Eagle Mountain UT 2002, ISBN 0-9720154-0-X , pp. 419-444.