The Diversity and Distribution of Palaeogene Snakes

KT Smith, GL Georgalis - … origin and early evolutionary history of …, 2022 - books.google.com
The first clear fossil indications of modern clades of snakes are in the Palaeogene. Many
major groups, including 'scolecophidians'(blindsnakes), probably originated earlier, and …

Iguanian lizards (Acrodonta and Pleurodonta) from the earliest Eocene (MP 7) of Dormaal, Belgium: the first stages of these iconic reptiles in Europe

A Čerňanský, R Smith, T Smith… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We here report on iguanians (both new and the previous record) from the earliest Eocene
(MP 7) of the Dormaal locality in Belgium, from the time of the warmest global climates of the …

Anguimorph lizards from the lower Eocene (MP 10–11) of the Cos locality, Phosphorites du Quercy, France, and the early evolution of Glyptosaurinae in Europe

A Čerňanský, R Tabuce, D Vidalenc - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Dispersal, not vicariance, explains the biogeographic origin of iguanas on Madagascar

RS Welt, CJ Raxworthy - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2022 - Elsevier
Lizards of the clade Iguanidae (sensu lato) are primarily a New World group. Thus, the
remarkable presence of an endemic lineage of iguanas (family Opluridae) on the isolated …

A new stem-varanid lizard (Reptilia, Squamata) from the early Eocene of China

L Dong, YQ Wang, Q Zhao… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Monitor lizards (genus Varanus) are today distributed across Asia, Africa and Australasia
and represent one of the most recognizable and successful lizard lineages. They include …

Morphometric analyses of the vertebrae of Ambystoma (Tschudi, 1838) and the implications for identification of fossil salamanders

DT Ledesma, A Ayala, ME Kemp - Journal of Morphology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Ambystoma (Tschudi, 1838) represents a speciose clade of salamanders that are
found across much of North America. Fossils referred to Ambystoma are reported from early …

Unappreciated Cenozoic ecomorphological diversification of stem gars revealed by a new large species

CD Brownstein - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 - agro.icm.edu.pl
The evolutionary history of gars, an ancient group of ray-finned fishes, is excellently
documented in the fossil record. These fishes are notable for how little the anatomy of extant …

New diminutive Eocene lizard reveals high K-Pg survivorship and taxonomic diversity of stem xenosaurs in North America

KT Smith, BAS Bhullar, JI Bloch - American Museum Novitates, 2022 - BioOne
We describe a new diminutive early Eocene lizard, Blutwurstia oliviae, gen. et sp. nov., on
the basis of associated cranial and postcranial remains from the Clarks Fork Basin of …

[PDF][PDF] Bipes biporus

CR Mahrdt, KR Beaman, JH Valdez-Villavicencio… - 2022 - repositories.lib.utexas.edu
Map. Geographic distribution of Bipes biporus. The open circle marks the type locality. Black
dots indicate other known localities accessed from VertNet or derived from other reliable …