The Miocene: The future of the past

M Steinthorsdottir, HK Coxall… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

[HTML][HTML] Fossil lizards and worm lizards (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe: an overview

A Villa, M Delfino - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2019 - Springer
Lizards were and still are an important component of the European herpetofauna. The
modern European lizard fauna started to set up in the Miocene and a rich fossil record is …

[图书][B] Snakes of the World: a supplement

J Boundy - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the
first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 …

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 …

The rise and fall of the Iberian cobras (Elapidae, Naja) in the context of their European and global fossil record

A Villa, AB Quadros, M Delfino, ÀH Luján… - Papers in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Very few remains of elapid snakes are known from the Iberian Peninsula, but these include
a probable endemic extinct species of cobra, Naja iberica from the Late Miocene. We here …

[HTML][HTML] Lizards and snakes from the late Miocene hominoid locality of Ravin de la Pluie (Axios Valley, Greece)

GL Georgalis, JC Rage, L de Bonis… - Swiss Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
We here describe lizards and snakes from the late Miocene (MN 10) of Ravin de la Pluie,
near Thessaloniki, Greece, a locality widely known for its hominoid primate Ouranopithecus …

Fossil amphibians and reptiles from Tegelen (Province of Limburg) and the early Pleistocene palaeoclimate of The Netherlands

A Villa, HA Blain, LW van den Hoek Ostende… - Quaternary science …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

A new window to the fossil herpetofauna of India: amphibians and snakes from the Miocene localities of Kutch (Gujarat)

NP Singh, R Patnaik, A Čerňanský, KM Sharma… - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Miocene beds of Kutch in India are well known for their mammalian
assemblages including an extinct ape Sivapithecus. We here report new amphibian and …

The Key to Understanding the European Miocene Chalcides (Squamata, Scincidae) Comes from Asia: The Lizards of the East Siberian Tagay Locality (Baikal Lake) …

A ČerŇanský, EV Syromyatnikova… - The Anatomical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The early middle Miocene (MN 5) lizards from the East Siberian Tagay locality (Baikal Lake,
Russia) in Asia are described here. The lizard fauna consists of two clades, Lacertidae and …

A new early Miocene herpetofauna from Kilçak, Turkey

E Syromyatnikova, GL Georgalis, S Mayda… - Russian Journal of …, 2019 - zora.uzh.ch
The fauna of amphibians and reptiles (except turtles) from the early Miocene localities of the
Kilçak section (Turkey) is described here. The herpetofaunal assemblage of the Kilçak …