… Lizards, most of them terrestrial, are found less frequently than the aquatic reptiles. Although
3000 species of lizards exist worldwide today, at Messel, … , skink, glass lizard, and monitor …

… This fact does not imply that they were rare during the Eocene or in the area of lake Messel.
… reptilian ecology around the Messel lake. The only larger predatory lizard reported from …

… between the locality of Messel (middle Eocene, Germany) and … carnivores are under-represented
at Messel (Morlo, Gunnell & Bartels, 2001). A more endemic fauna is present at Messel …

… of carnivorous squamates (mosasaurs, snakes, monitor lizards, Gila Monsters) are a
contentious part of reptile … skeletons from the early-middle Eocene of Messel, Germany. We re-…

… Lake Messel (47 Ma) in Germany are used to investigate Eocene … Stable isotopic compositions
(δ13C and δ15N) of Messel … These chemical data broadly confirm existing Messel food …

… european Eocene is revised. There is no evidence for the existence of amphisbaenian lizards
… for the absence of crown amphisbaenians at Messel and in the European middle Eocene. …

… ‘lizards’). They have represented a major component of vertebrate faunas likely since the
beginning of the Eocene… fossils have been reported only from Messel and/or the Geiseltal sites; …

… from extant snakes near the Palaeocene–Eocene boundary, coincident with the prolonged …
Palaeocene–Eocene boundary [53]. Range expansion, as inferred for a number of lizard taxa …

… We report a fossil snake from the middle Eocene (48 Ma) Messel Pit, in whose stomach is
a lizard, in whose stomach is an insect. This is the second known vertebrate fossil containing …

… of the middle Eocene fossil Lagerstätte of Messel, Germany, and of … is the most common
lizard species in Messel. We present … Most specimens sank quickly to the bottom of Lake Messel …