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 …

The first potential cordyliform (Squamata, Scincoidea) from India (uppermost Cretaceous–lowermost Paleocene): An African lizard clade brings possible implications …

R Yadav, S Bajpai, AS Maurya, A Čerňanský - Cretaceous Research, 2023 - Elsevier
We here report on a new lizard from the Deccan intertrappean strata (uppermost Cretaceous–
lowermost Paleocene) of the recently discovered Kesavi locality, central India. The material …

The first Miocene fossils of Lacerta cf. trilineata (Squamata, Lacertidae) with a comparative study of the main cranial osteological differences in green lizards and …

A Čerňanský, EV Syromyatnikova - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
We here describe the first fossil remains of a green lizard of the Lacerta group from the late
Miocene (MN 13) of the Solnechnodolsk locality in southern European Russia. This region …

Lizards and snakes from the earliest Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy, France: an anatomical and histological approach of some of the oldest Neogene squamates …

GL Georgalis, TM Scheyer - BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Springer
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 …

The Miocene fossil lizards from Kutch (Gujarat), India: a rare window to the past diversity of this subcontinent

A Čerňanský, NP Singh, R Patnaik… - Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The Miocene beds of Kutch in India are well known for their mammalian assemblages,
including the extinct ape Sivapithecus, but far less is known about the fossil squamates from …

Geckos from the middle Miocene of Devínska Nová Ves (Slovakia): new material and a review of the previous record

A Čerňanský, JD Daza, AM Bauer - Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2018 - Springer
New species of a gecko of the genus Euleptes is described here—E. klembarai. The
material comes from the middle Miocene (Astaracian, MN 6) of Slovakia, more precisely from …

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 …

The first pre‐Quaternary fossil record of the clade Mabuyidae with a comment on the enclosure of the Meckelian canal in skinks

A Čerňanský, EV Syromyatnikova - Papers in Palaeontology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We here describe the first Neogene record of the squamate clade Mabuyidae. Although this
clade has a cosmopolitan distribution today, no pre‐Quaternary fossil record of these …

New lizard material from two Early Miocene localities in France: Montaigu-le-Blin (MN 2) and Crémat (MN 3)

A Čerňanský - Geobios, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Early Miocene squamate assemblage from the Mokrá-Western Quarry (Czech Republic) and its palaeobiogeographical and palaeoenvironmental implications

M Ivanov, A Čerňanský, I Bonilla-Salomón, ÀH Luján - Geodiversitas, 2020 - BioOne
Two fossiliferous karstic fissures from the Mokrá-Western Quarry, MWQ (1/2001 Turtle Joint;
2/2003 Reptile Joint) provided a diverse vertebrate fauna from the early Miocene …