Abstract The Pliocene and Early Pleistocene three-toed horses of Western Eurasia
(Caucasus, Anatolia, Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe, Italian and Iberian Peninsulas …

Biochronology is the most widely used method for organizing the successions of continental
vertebrate faunas in geological time and for allowing the correlation of continental deposits …

Extant apes (Primates: Hominoidea) are the relics of a group that was much more diverse in
the past. They originated in Africa around the Oligocene/Miocene boundary, but by the …

Fossil evidence indicates that numerous catarrhine clades of African origin expanded or
shifted their ranges into Eurasia, among them macaques Macaca Lacépède, 1799 …

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 evolution of the present-day African savannah fauna has been substantially influenced
by the dispersal of Eurasian ancestors into Africa. The ancestors evolved endemically …

Extant wild bovids of Greece include only the Balkan Chamois and the Wild Goat of Creta,
though past bovid biodiversity was tremendously higher, accounting up to ten …

During the Turolian (late Miocene), the Eastern Mediterranean region is considered to have
been part of a single major ecological area, supporting a particular savanna-type large …

Extensive fieldwork and detailed studies during the last three decades have enriched our
understanding of the Plio-Pleistocene large mammal record of Greece. While the unearthed …

Monitor lizards (genus Varanus) inhabited Europe at least from the early Miocene to the
Pleistocene. Their fossil record is limited to about 40 localities that have provided mostly …