Colubridae, Oppel, 1811

Codrea, Vlad A., Bordeianu, Marian & Venczel, Márton, 2021, Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late Miocene of Fălciu (Eastern Romania), Palaeontologia Electronica (a 19) 25 (2), pp. 1-23 : 13

Colubridae indet.

Figure 8I

Material. UBB V 968/1-3 three fragmentary vertebrae.

Description. The vertebrae are strongly damaged preserving only the ventral part of their centrum. The haemal keel is flattened and more or less parallel sided ( Figure 8I ). The paradiapophyses are weakly differentiated into parapophyseal and diapophyseal portions.

Remarks. The presence of a flattened haemal keel in the trunk vertebrae of several members of Colubridae (e.g., Coronella , Eirenis , Elaphe , Hierophis , Telescopus ) (Szyndlar 1991a: fig. 8), prevent a closer assignment of the available material.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Fossil snake vertebrae from FP 1: A-B, Scolecophidia indet. (UBB V 965/1-2) in dorsal (A) and ventral (B) views; C-I, Natrix sp. (UBB V 967/1-5) in dorsal (C, D, I), ventral (F), anterior (E) and lateral (G,H) views; J, Colubridae indet. (UBB V 968/1) in ventral view. Scale bars (A-B; C-J) equal 2 mm.