Late Pleistocene Squamate Reptiles from the Baranica Cave near Knjazevac (Eastern Serbia) | Zendy

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Late Pleistocene Squamate Reptiles from the Baranica Cave near Knjazevac (Eastern Serbia)

Author(s) -

Dragana Djuric,

Katarina Bogićević,

Dragana Petrović,

Draženko Nenadić

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

geoloski anali balkanskog poluostrva

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2406-0747

pISSN - 0350-0608

DOI - 10.2298/gabp1778023d

Subject(s) - lacertidae , natrix , fauna , cave , pleistocene , zoology , squamata , lizard , biology , geography , ecology , paleontology , sauria

. The Late Pleistocene layers (2-4) of the Baranica Cave near Knjaževac (Eastern Serbia) contain rich and diverse vertebrate fauna, as well as several Palaeolithic artefacts. The squamate reptile fauna contains three lizard and seven ophidian (snakes) taxa (Lacerta agilis, Lacertidae indet., Anguis fragilis, Elaphe quatuorlineata, Zamenis cf. longissimus, Coronella austriaca, cf. Natrix sp., Vipera ammodytes, Vipera cf. berus, Vipera sp.). This is only the second of Late Pleistocene herpetofauna described from Serbia. It consists of the forms mainly characteristic for cold, temperate and moderately open regions, except for Elaphe quatuorlineata, which today lives in the areas with submediterranean climate.

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