An overview of the late Miocene vertebrates from the fissure fillings of Monticino Quarry (Brisighella, Italy), with new data on non-mammalian taxa

A Villa, G Carnevale, M Pavia, L Rook, M Sami… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2021 - flore.unifi.it
The latest Messinian Monticino Quarry fissure fillings, near Brisighella in Italy, are well
known for their diverse mammal fauna. Conversely, little is known about other vertebrates …

Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene locality of Maramena (Greece), the most diverse European herpetofauna at the Miocene/Pliocene transition …

G Georgalis, A Villa, M Ivanov, D Vasilyan… - Palaeontologia …, 2019 - iris.unito.it
We herein describe the fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene (latest Miocene or
earliest Pliocene; MN 13/14) locality of Maramena, in northern Greece. The herpetofauna is …

The first Miocene fossils of Lacerta cf. trilineata (Squamata, Lacertidae) with a comparative study of the main cranial osteological differences in green lizards and …

A Čerňanský, EV Syromyatnikova - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
We here describe the first fossil remains of a green lizard of the Lacerta group from the late
Miocene (MN 13) of the Solnechnodolsk locality in southern European Russia. This region …

The first pre‐Quaternary fossil record of the clade Mabuyidae with a comment on the enclosure of the Meckelian canal in skinks

A Čerňanský, EV Syromyatnikova - Papers in Palaeontology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We here describe the first Neogene record of the squamate clade Mabuyidae. Although this
clade has a cosmopolitan distribution today, no pre‐Quaternary fossil record of these …

New diverse amphibian and reptile assemblages from the late Neogene of northern Greece provide novel insights into the emergence of extant herpetofaunas of the …

GL Georgalis, A Villa, M Ivanov, M Delfino - Swiss Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
We here describe abundant new fossil material of amphibians and reptiles from different late
Neogene localities of northern Greece: the Early Pliocene (MN 14) of Spilia 0, Spilia 1, and …

[PDF][PDF] The easternmost record of the largest anguine lizard that has ever lived–Pseudopus pannonicus (Squamata, Anguidae): new fossils from the late Neogene of …

E Loréal, EV Syromyatnikova, IG Danilov, A Čerňanský - Fossil Record, 2023 - fr.pensoft.net
We here report on new material of Pseudopus pannonicus, the iconic and largest-known
representative of the lizard clade Anguinae, from several late Neogene localities across …

The first record of amphisbaenian and anguimorph lizards (Reptilia, Squamata) from the upper Miocene Solnechnodolsk locality in Russia

A Čerňanský, EV Syromyatnikova, D Jablonski - Historical Biology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The amphisbaenian and anguimorph fossil lizards from the late Miocene (MN 13)
Solnechnodolsk locality (southern European Russia) are described. Amphisbaenians are …

Reinterpretation of tuberculate cervical vertebrae of Eocene birds as an exceptional anti‐predator adaptation against the mammalian craniocervical killing bite

G Mayr, UB Göhlich, Z Roček, A Lemierre… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We report avian cervical vertebrae from the Quercy fissure fillings in France, which are
densely covered with villi‐like tubercles. Two of these vertebrae stem from a late Eocene …

The Pliocene Ophisaurus (Anguidae) from Eastern Europe: new records and additions to the history of the genus and its palaeoenvironment

E Syromyatnikova, J Klembara… - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
Ophisaurus (Anguidae) was widely distributed throughout the Miocene of Europe, but quite
rarely occurred in the Pliocene, and almost absent in the Pliocene of Eastern Europe. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Miocene and Pliocene amphibians from Hambach (Germany): New evidence for a late Neogene refuge in northwestern Europe

A Villa, L Macaluso, T Mörs - Palaeontologia Electronica, 2024 - palaeo-electronica.org
The Hambach lignite mine in northwestern Germany is a renowned fossil locality, which has
yielded remains of several vertebrates dated back to the Middle Miocene and the Late …