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 world's largest worm lizard: a new giant trogonophid (Squamata: Amphisbaenia) with extreme dental adaptations from the Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia

GL Georgalis, KT Smith, L Marivaux… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We here describe Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi, a new amphisbaenian genus and
species from the Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia. Using micro-computed tomography (μCT), we …

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 …

Fossil lizards and snakes (Diapsida, Squamata) from the Late Miocene hominid locality of Haritalyangar, India

NP Singh, S Deep, A Čerňanský, RK Sehgal, AP Singh… - Geobios, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Miocene hominid-bearing locality in Haritalyangar, India, has yielded
remains of fossil lizards and snakes. The material consists of the following taxa: Varanus …

Extirpation of Ophisaurus (Anguimorpha, Anguidae) in Western Europe in the context of the disappearance of subtropical ecosystems at the Early-Middle Pleistocene …

HA Blain, S Bailon - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2019 - Elsevier
Disarticulated remains of anguid lizards from the latest Early Pleistocene of the Sierra de
Quibas (Abanilla, Murcia, SE Spain) are described and assigned to a new species …

[HTML][HTML] Poor but classic: The squamate fauna from the late Miocene of Pikermi, near Athens, Greece

GL Georgalis - Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2019 - Elsevier
I here describe new fossil remains of lizards and snakes from the late Miocene of Pikermi,
near Athens, Greece. This classical locality, known since at least the middle of the 19th …

A contribution to the herpetofauna from the late Miocene of Gritsev (Ukraine)

Z Roček - Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2019 - Elsevier
Excavations in the locality Gritsev (karstic fillings of the upper Miocene age in a limestone
quarry in Shepetovsky District, Khmelnitsky Region, Ukraine) revealed, since 1983 when …

A fossil record of the Eastern clade of Blanus (Amphisbaenia: Blanidae) from the late Miocene of Ukraine

EV Syromyatnikova, ES Kovalenko, AA Kaloyan - Geobios, 2021 - Elsevier
The fossil history of worm lizards in Eastern Europe is very patchy because of the small
number of localities and the fragmentary vertebral material available. A new record of the …

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 …