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 …

Few Quaternary herpetofaunas have been recovered from The Netherlands. Among these,
the one coming from the early Pleistocene site of the Russel-Tiglia-Egypte pit near Tegelen …

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 …

Amphibians of North Africa is a comprehensive compilation of available data on the
amphibians and reptiles found in various ecosystems across North West Africa and parts of …

The disjunct geographical range of many lineages of caudates points to a complex
evolutionary and biogeographic history that cannot be disentangled by only considering the …

The partial skeleton of a fossil snake is described from the Upper Miocene “Liushu”
Formation of the Linxia Basin, Gansu Province, in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau of China …

The Hynobiidae are an early-diverging clade of crown-group salamanders (urodeles) with
an important bearing on the evolution of urodeles. Paleobiology and early-branching …

Abstract Crocodile newts (Echinotriton and Tylototriton) are emblematic of the biodiversity of
South-East Asia. In this study, we provide an account of their evolution, diversity and …

Beremendiini is an extinct group of soricine shrews that were widely distributed during the
Pliocene and Pleistocene. Their occurrence in China has been investigated, but their …

Gekkota (geckos and pygopods) constitute a diverse and early diverging clade of
squamates, but their highly fragmentary fossil record allows only limited insights into their …