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 …

Fossil amphibians and reptiles from Plakias, Crete: a glimpse into the earliest late Miocene herpetofaunas of southeastern Europe

GL Georgalis, A Villa, E Vlachos, M Delfino - Geobios, 2016 - Elsevier
Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the earliest late Miocene (early Tortonian, MN 9) of
Plakias (Crete, Greece) are described in this paper. Most of the material is fragmentary …

Expansion after expansion: dissecting the phylogeography of the widely distributed spur-thighed tortoise, Testudo graeca (Testudines: Testudinidae)

EVA Graciá, M Vargas-Ramírez… - Biological Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Studying phylogeographic histories in wide-ranging species provides key insights into those
processes shaping current species' distributions and genetic structuring. In this work, we …

Food for thought: Sub-fossil and fossil chelonian remains from Franchthi Cave and Megalopolis confirm a glacial refuge for Emys orbicularis in Peloponnesus (S …

E Vlachos, M Delfino - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Peloponnesus peninsula (S. Greece) shows a remarkable extant chelonian fauna that has
received considerable attention from a molecular and morphological point of view. Here we …

First authentic record of the freshwater turtle Mauremys from the upper Pliocene of Italy, with a new occurrence of the rarely reported ichnotaxon Thatchtelithichnus …

A Collareta, S Casati, MAL Zuffi, A Di Cencio - Carnets de Geologie, 2020 - arpi.unipi.it
Nowadays, the living species of the terrapin genus Mauremys (Testudinoidea: Geoemydi-
dae) are mostly found in eastern Asia, but three of them inhabit the Western Palearctic …

The diverse fossil chelonians from Milia (late Pliocene, Grevena, Greece) with a new species of Testudo Linnaeus, 1758 (Testudines: Testudinidae)

E Vlachos, E Tsoukala - Papers in Palaeontology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The late P liocene (early V illafranchian, MN 16a) locality of M ilia (G revena, G reece) has
yielded numerous remains of mammals, such as zygodons, mastodons, rhinocerotids …

Fossil turtle eggs from the Upper Cretaceous Gaogou Formation, Xiaguan-Gaoqiu Basin, Neixiang County, Henan Province, China: Interpretation of the transformation …

L Xu, J Xie, S Zhang, S Choi, NH Kim, D Gao, X Jin… - Cretaceous …, 2022 - Elsevier
In 2007, a clutch of approximately 30 fossil eggs reported from the Upper Cretaceous
Gaogou Formation, Xiaguan-Gaoqiu Basin, Neixiang County, Henan Province, China was …

The Pikermian tortoises (Testudines, Testudinidae) from the late Miocene of the South Balkans

E Vlachos, GL Georgalis, S Roussiakis… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This article deals with the fossil tortoises of one of the most iconic fossil localities of the
Neogene of the Old World, the upper Miocene locality of Pikermi, near Athens, Greece. We …

Late Miocene tortoises from Samos, Greece: implications for European Neogene testudinid systematics and distributions

E Vlachos, A Pérez-García, S Roussiakis… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The world-famous upper Miocene fossil localities on the Aegean island of Samos in Greece
have produced a rich fossil record that sheds light on the evolution of eastern Mediterranean …

[PDF][PDF] Fosso della Fittaia: the oldest Tusco-Sardinian late Miocene endemic vertebrate assemblage (Baccinello-Cinigiano Basin, Tuscany, Italy)

O Cirilli, M Benvenuti, G Carnevale… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2016 - iris.unito.it
The Late Miocene continental successions of the Baccinello-Cinigiano basin (Grosseto),
one of the longest and most continuous vertebrate-bearing continental successions in the …