Also known as Togai, Tagai, Olhon Island, Olkhon Island, Lake Baykal,

Where: Irkutsk, Russian Federation (53.2° N, 110.2° E: paleocoordinates 53.6° N, 110.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Khalagai Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• "Snakes come from the lower part of the Khalagai Formation, whose age is estimated as late Middle or early Late Miocene." (Rage & Danilov, 2008)

•In order to fit the present collection in one of the 10 Ma bins of the database, the age of the collection is tentatively assigned to the Serravallian (late Middle Miocene).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by N. A. Logachev in 1958

• "The material was collected by N.A. Logachev in 1958 and it is preserved in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, palaeoherpetological collection (ZIN PH), Saint Petersburg, Russia."

Primary reference: J.-C. Rage and I. G. Danilov. 2008. A new Miocene fauna of snakes from eastern Siberia, Russia. Was the snake fauna largely homogenous in Eurasia during the Miocene. Comptes Rendus Palevol 7(6):383-390 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48439: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 18.03.2005, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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