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 fossil record provides evidence of a long evolutionary history of European lizards. Since
fossil lizards are regularly represented by bone remains, the knowledge of the origins of …

We herein describe the fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene (latest Miocene or
earliest Pliocene; MN 13/14) locality of Maramena, in northern Greece. The herpetofauna is …

Occupants of coastal and island eastern Africa—now known as the 'Swahili coast'—were
involved in long‐distance trade with the Indian Ocean world during the later first millennium …

Comparative osteology of European lizards, and of European geckos in particular, is poorly
known, resulting in problems when trying to determine to species isolated bones found as …

The fossil record of squamates (ie lizards and snakes) from Greece is reviewed herein.
Fossil remains of lizards and snakes in Greece date as back as the early Miocene. Their …

We provide a detailed and first description of the skull, hyoid apparatus, and trachea of the
Turks and Caicos rock iguana, Cyclura carinata (Squamata: Iguanidae). Cyclura is a …

Comparisons of extant and extinct biodiversity are often dependent on objective morphology-
based identifications of fossils and assume a well-established and comparable taxonomy for …

Specimen-level phylogenetic approaches are widely used in molecular biology for
taxonomic and systematic purposes. However, they have been largely ignored in analyses …

Timon is a large-sized lacertid lizard genus with a peculiar current distribution around the
Mediterranean. Six species form three distinct clades, which are geographically separated …