A combined palaeomodelling approach reveals the role as selective refugia of the Mediterranean peninsulas

L Macaluso, A Bertini, G Carnevale, JT Eronen… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
The northern Mediterranean reptiles and amphibians show contrasting biogeographic
histories during the Plio-Pleistocene. The influence of European climate changes on the …

Pseudopus pannonicus (Squamata), the largest known anguid lizard—Redescription of the type material and new specimens from the Neogene and Quaternary of …

E Loréal, GL Georgalis, A Čerňanský - The Anatomical Record, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we revise the material of the extinct taxon Pseudopus pannonicus from Central
Europe, the largest known anguid lizard and iconic member of herpetofaunas from the …

A review of the Late Miocene herpetofauna of the Keinar locality of Moldova

E Syromyatnikova, O Redkozubov - Geobios, 2024 - Elsevier
Small fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Late Miocene of the Keinar locality of Moldova
are reviewed for the first time. The following taxa are described: Mioproteus caucasicus …

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 …

Timing of intercontinental faunal migrations: Anguimorph lizards from the earliest Eocene (MP 7) of Dormaal, Belgium

A Čerňanský, R Smith, T Smith… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Here we report on anguimorph lizards from the earliest Eocene (MP 7) of the Dormaal
locality in Belgium, from the time of the warmest global climate of the past 66 million years …

Anguimorph lizards from the lower Eocene (MP 10–11) of the Cos locality, Phosphorites du Quercy, France, and the early evolution of Glyptosaurinae in Europe

A Čerňanský, R Tabuce, D Vidalenc - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Squamate faunas from the lower Eocene of Europe are rare. A newly discovered lower
Eocene (MP 10–11) Cos locality in southwestern France has yielded an assemblage of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Fishes and squamate reptiles from the Pliocene sites of Berești and Mălușteni (eastern Romania)–A reassessment of old but poorly known material

Ș Vasile, O Kovalchuk, M Venczel, BG Rățoi… - Geobios, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper performs a revision of teleost fish and squamate reptile material from the Early
Pliocene sites of Berești and Mălușteni (eastern Romania), found in old collections, but …

A racerunner lizard (Lacertidae: Eremias) from the Early Pleistocene of Crimea

EV Syromyatnikova, MS Tarasova - Historical Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A nearly complete frontal bone of a racerunner lizard (Lacertidae: Eremias) is
described from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave–a famous site of fossil …

[PDF][PDF] Roots of the European Cenozoic ecosystems: lizards from the Paleocene (~ MP 5) of Walbeck in Germany

A Čerňanský, D Vasilyan - Fossil Record, 2024 - fr.pensoft.net
We studied at least part of Kuhnʼs original material of lizards from the Paleocene (~ MP 5)
of the Walbeck locality in Germany. The collection was considered to be lost but is …