The first potential cordyliform (Squamata, Scincoidea) from India (uppermost Cretaceous–lowermost Paleocene): An African lizard clade brings possible implications …

R Yadav, S Bajpai, AS Maurya, A Čerňanský - Cretaceous Research, 2023 - Elsevier
We here report on a new lizard from the Deccan intertrappean strata (uppermost Cretaceous–
lowermost Paleocene) of the recently discovered Kesavi locality, central India. The material …

A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)

G Daxner-Höck, T Mörs, AY Kazansky… - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
We report about the Early Miocene Tagay fauna of Olkhon Island, the largest island of the
Baikal Lake. The Tagay fauna is of high scientific importance because of the diversity of …

Geology and lithology of the Tagay-1 section at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia), and description of Aplodontidae, Mylagaulidae and Sciuridae (Rodentia …

G Daxner-Höck, T Mörs, I Filinov, A Shchetnikov… - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
Excavations along the Tagay-1 section shed light into the composition of small mammal
assemblages of the Tagay site. The present paper focuses on the geology and …

[HTML][HTML] Nomenclature of supra-generic units within the Family Scincidae (Squamata)

GM Shea - Zootaxa, 2021 - mapress.com
The modern classification of skinks is based on a nomenclature that dates to the 1970s.
However, there are a number of earlier names in the family group that have been …

[HTML][HTML] A non-adaptive radiation of viviparous skinks from the seasonal tropics of India: Systematics of Subdoluseps (Squamata: Scincidae), with description of a new …

I Agarwal, T Thackeray… - Vertebrate …, 2024 - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
Subdoluseps is a recently described genus of Lygosomine skinks distributed in peninsular
India and Southeast Asia. We conduct the first revision of Indian Subdoluseps based on …

Green lizards (Squamata, Lacertidae) from? Pliocene deposits of Węże I in southern Poland, with comments on cranial features for selected lacertids

A Čerňanský - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2024 - Springer
I here describe lacertids from the classic Węże I locality in southern Poland (? Pliocene
deposits) based on six previously undescribed jaws: an incomplete left maxilla, two …

The Miocene fossil lizards from Kutch (Gujarat), India: a rare window to the past diversity of this subcontinent

A Čerňanský, NP Singh, R Patnaik… - Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The Miocene beds of Kutch in India are well known for their mammalian assemblages,
including the extinct ape Sivapithecus, but far less is known about the fossil squamates from …

Small Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from the Early–Middle Miocene of Eurasia. Part 2. The Fauna of Tagay Locality (Baikal Region; Eastern Siberia)

NV Zelenkov - Paleontological Journal, 2023 - Springer
Remains of small ducks are described from the boundary Early–Middle Miocene deposits of
Tagay (Baikal Region), the only locality in Asia with a representative bird fauna from the …

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 …

Amphibian and reptilian fauna from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany

D Vasilyan, A Čerňanský, Z Szyndlar, T Mörs - Fossil Record, 2022 - diva-portal.org
The present study describes a rich amphibian and reptilian assemblage from the early
Miocene locality Echzell, Germany. It consists of one allocaudate, five salamander, five frog …