A new fossil marine lizard with soft tissues from the Late Cretaceous of southern Italy

I Paparella, A Palci, U Nicosia… - Royal Society open …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A new marine lizard showing exceptional soft tissue preservation was found in Late
Cretaceous deposits of the Apulian Platform (Puglia, Italy). Primitivus manduriensis gen. et …

New lizards and rhynchocephalians from the Lower Cretaceous of southern Italy

SE Evans, P Raia, C Barbera - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2004 - agro.icm.edu.pl
The Lower Cretaceous (Albian age) locality of Pietraroia, near Benevento in southern Italy,
has yielded a diverse assem− blage of fossil vertebrates, including at least one genus of …

The lower Cretaceous lizard genus Chometokadmon from Italy

SE Evans, P Raia, C Barbera - Cretaceous Research, 2006 - Elsevier
The Lower Cretaceous (Albian) locality of Pietraroia, Italy, has yielded a rich and diverse
assemblage of fossil vertebrates, including at least one genus of rhynchocephalian …

A new miniaturized lizard from the late Eocene of France and Spain

A Bolet, M Augé - The Anatomical Record, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We report here a new lizard genus and species shared by two late Eocene localities situated
at both versants of the present Pyrenees (South‐Western Europe), one located in France …

A new family of teiioid lizards from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania with notes on the evolutionary history of early teiioids

VA Codrea, M Venczel… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abundant isolated bones of fossil lizards from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
continental deposits of western Romania point to a previously unexpected squamate …

Vestigial forelimbs and axial elongation in a 95 million-year-old non-snake squamate

A Palci, MW Caldwell - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
A new species of 95-million-year-old snake-like marine lizard, Adriosaurus sp. nov., shows
complete loss of the manus and zeugopodium in association with elongation of the axial …

A new lizard from the Early Cretaceous of Catalonia (Spain), and the Mesozoic lizards of the Iberian Peninsula

A Bolet, SE Evans - Cretaceous Research, 2010 - Elsevier
The Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian-early Valanginan) locality of La Pedrera de Meià
(Montsec, Catalonia, Spain) has yielded remains of at least two genera of lizards …

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 …

Tetrapodophis amplectus is not a snake: re-assessment of the osteology, phylogeny and functional morphology of an Early Cretaceous dolichosaurid lizard

MW Caldwell, TR Simões, A Palci… - Journal of Systematic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The origin of snakes remains one of the most contentious evolutionary transitions in
vertebrate evolution. The discovery of snake fossils with well-formed hind limbs provided …

Marine reptiles (Thalattosuchia) from the early Jurassic of Lombardy (northern Italy)

M Delfino, C Dal Sasso - Geobios, 2006 - Elsevier
The fossil remains of two small reptiles recently discovered in the Sogno Formation (Lower
Toarcian) near Cesana Brianza (Lecco Province), represent the first mesoeucrocodylians …