Madtsoiidae are a group of archaic snakes, widely distributed in the Upper Cretaceous of
Gondwanan landmasses (South America, Madagascar, India, Africa), but otherwise reported …

Abstract The Deccan Traps of peninsular India, representing one of the largest flood basalt
eruptions on the earth's surface, have been a subject of intensive research in the last three …

We report the discovery of a new species of the snake Madtsoia from infratrappean horizons
of Late Cretaceous age in Pisdura, central India. Recovered vertebrae are large (1.83 cm …

Abstract The Molí del Baró-1 site (north-eastern Iberia) has yielded one of the richest fossil
assemblages of the continental upper Maastrichtian from western Europe. It includes …

The Eocene was a time of high ophidian diversity across much of the world, dominated by
booid-grade snakes. A series of extinction events during and at the end of the Eocene …

The Paleogene was a time of high diversity for snakes, and was characterized by some of
the largest species known to have existed. Among these snakes were pan-Tethyan marine …

Squamates from the Mesozoic of North America have been collected since the end of the
nineteenth century. To date, the fossils are known to occur in the Late Jurassic, Aptian …

The Upper Cretaceous outcrops of the Pyrenees yield one of the most extensive and
continuous records of paleoological remains anywhere in the world. Most of eggs and …

The limbed snake Najash rionegrina from the Cenomanian (early Late Cretaceous) of the La
Buitrera Palaeontological Area (LBPA), northern Patagonia is a key taxon in any study of the …

Acrochordus is a species-poor but highly distinctive aquatic snake genus currently
distributed from India to the western edge of the Pacific. We provide the first phylogeny for …