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 …

A dated phylogenetic hypothesis on the evolutionary history of the extant taxa of the Western
Palearctic lizards Anguis and Pseudopus is revised using genome-wide nuclear DNA and …

The article reports on the first detailed vertebral and rib morphology of anguine taxon
Pseudopus apodus using micro‐computed tomography. A comparison shows significant …

Karyotype divergence may strongly affect the degree of hybridization between species.
Western Palearctic slow worms (Anguis) are legless lizards forming different types of …

Abstract Background The earliest Miocene (Aquitanian) represents a crucial time interval in
the evolution of European squamates (ie, lizards and snakes), witnessing a high diversity of …

Abstract The Ulm-Westtangente locality has yielded the most abundant vertebrate fauna
from the Aquitanian stage in Germany. Its dating to the Mammal Neogene Zone 2a, a …

Squamate faunas from the MN 1–3 intervals (earliest Miocene) are scarcely documented
from the European continent. I here describe squamate faunas from two French localities …

The Levant represents one of the most important reptile diversity hotspots and centers of
endemism in the Western Palearctic. The region harbored numerous taxa in glacial refugia …

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 …

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 …