A Fossil Leaf-Toed Gecko from the Oppenheim/Nierstein Quarry (Lower Miocene, Germany)

Müller, Johannes; Mödden, Clemens

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“…2009). Fossil Euleptes dated to 22.5 Ma provide a minimum calibration for the divergence between E. europaea and other sphaerodactylids (exponential prior, mean = 25, offset = 22.5) (Müller 2001; Müller & Mödden 2001). The divergence between Woodworthia (formerly Hoplodactylus ) maculata and Oedura marmorata (exponential prior, mean = 17, offset = 16) was calibrated based on fossil Hoplodactylus dated to 16–19 Ma (Lee et al.…”

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Phylogeny of a trans‐Wallacean radiation (Squamata, Gekkonidae,Gehyra) supports a single early colonization of Australia

Heinicke¹,

Greenbaum²,

Jackman³

et al. 2011

Zoologica Scripta

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Heinicke, M. P., Greenbaum, E., Jackman, T. R. & Bauer, A. M. Phylogeny of a trans‐Wallacean radiation (Squamata, Gekkonidae, Gehyra) supports a single early colonization of Australia. —Zoologica Scripta, 40, 584–602. The genus Gehyra (34 species) is rare among squamate reptile radiations in spanning continents, extending from southeast Asia to Australia and Polynesia. Among the family Gekkonidae sensu stricto, Gehyra is the only genus that is species rich in Australia. We performed molecular phylogenetic, divergence timing, and ancestral area analyses to investigate the evolutionary and biogeographic history of Gehyra. Phylogenetic analyses resolve Hemiphyllodactylus as the closest relative of Gehyra. Some data also link Perochirus to this group, but previously suggested relationships with other morphologically similar genera of geckos are not supported. Within Gehyra, three geographically discrete clades are recovered, respectively, concentrated in Asia, the Pacific islands and Australia. Ancestral area analyses suggest that Gehyra originated in Asia, with a single colonization of Australia occurring in the mid‐Cenozoic. This date places the time of Gehyra colonization prior to those of other Australian gekkonid geckos, but after the near‐endemic pygopodoid geckos, a Gondwanan relictual group. Based on these dates, times of origin may best explain relative differences in species diversity among Australian gekkotans. In contrast, although originating earlier, Gehyra is less diverse in Asia than in Australia. This pattern may be explained by the long‐term presence of many competing, ecologically similar genera in Asia (e.g. Gekko, Hemidactylus, Lepidodactylus), whereas nearly all pygopodoids in Australia (the only gekkotans present at the time of colonization of Australia by Gehyra) are ecologically distinct.

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Phylogeny of a trans‐Wallacean radiation (Squamata, Gekkonidae,Gehyra) supports a single early colonization of Australia

Heinicke¹,

Greenbaum²,

Jackman³

et al. 2011

Zoologica Scripta

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“…and Sphaerodactylus dommeli (Böhme, 1984;Kluge, 1995), constrained the node subtending Sphaerodactylus elegans + Sphaerodactylus roosevelti (exponential distribution, mean 3.0, offset 15); (iii) Two Euleptes fossil species (E. sp. and Euleptes gallica) (Müller, 2001;Müller and Mödden, 2001) were used to constrain the node subtending Euleptes and its sister clade (exponential distribution, mean 25.0, offset 22.5); (iv) Hoplodactylus sp. fossil material from the St. Bathans Miocene fossil deposit of the South Island of New Zealand , was used to constrain the node subtending the sister relationship between the New Zealand geckos and their sister clade (exponential distribution, mean 17.0, offset 16); and (v) the proposed emergence of New Caledonia (Grandcolas et al, 2008) was used to constrain the node subtending the New Caledonain diplodactylids and their sister group (uniform distribution, lower bound 0 Ma, upper bound 37 Ma).…”

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New Zealand geckos (Diplodactylidae): Cryptic diversity in a post-Gondwanan lineage with trans-Tasman affinities

Nielsen

Bauer

Jackman

et al. 2011

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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“…Gekkota (geckos and pygopod lizards) is a diverse clade of lepidosaurs, represented today by nearly 1,500 described extant species (Bauer, ; Uetz et al, ). Despite this modern diversity, the group is poorly represented by documented pre‐Quaternary fossils (Estes, ; Müller and Mödden, ; Augé, ). The last comprehensive revision of its fossil record was published thirty years ago (Estes, ), although material from the Paleogene of Europe has been reviewed more recently (Augé, ; Rage, ).…”

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“…Miocene material from Europe includes Gerandogekko arambourgi , G. gaillardi (Hoffstetter, ; Kluge, ; Schleich, ), several taxa of the still‐extant leaf‐toed gecko genus Euleptes , known from Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia (Estes, ; Müller, ; Müller and Mödden, ; Čerňanský and Bauer, ), Palaeogekko risgovienis from Steinberg in southern Germany (Schleich, ), and many indeterminate dentaries, maxillae, and vertebrae from the Miocene at Sansan in southwestern France (Augé and Rage, ). Miocene material from outside Europe is represented by disarticulated material from Morocco (Rage, ), several miniaturized Sphaerodactylus geckos in amber inclusions from Hispaniola (Böhme, ; Schlee, ; Kluge, ; Grimaldi et al, ; Daza and Bauer, , Daza et al, ), the pygopod Pygopus hortulanus from the Early Miocene of Australia (Hutchinson, ), several disarticulated bones from New Zealand (Lee et al, ), and an isolated dentary from Florida (Estes, ).…”

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On the Fossil Record of the Gekkota

Daza

Bauer

Snively

2014

The Anatomical Record

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Gekkota is often interpreted as sister to all remaining squamates, exclusive of dibamids, or as sister to Autarchoglossa. It is the only diverse lineage of primarily nocturnal lizards and includes some of the smallest amniotes. The skeleton of geckos has often been interpreted as paedomorphic and/or "primitive" but these lizards also display a wide range of structural specializations of the postcranium, including modifications associated with both scansorial locomotion and limb reduction. Although the concept of "Gekkota" has been variously applied by different authors, we here apply a rigorous apomorphy based definition, recent advances in gekkotan morphology and phylogenetics, and diverse comparative material to provide a comprehensive assessment of 28 known pre-Quaternary geckos, updating the last such review, published three decades ago. Fossils evaluated include both sedimentary fossils and amber-embedded specimens. Known Cretaceous geckos are exclusively Asian and exhibit character combinations not seen in any living forms. Cenozoic gekkotans derive from sites around the world, although Europe is especially well represented. Paleogene geckos are largely known from disarticulated remains and show similarities to Sphaerodactylidae and Diplodactylidae, although resemblances may be plesiomorphic in some cases. Many Neogene gekkotans are referable to living families or even genera, but their geographic occurrences are often extralimital to those of modern groups, as is consistent with paleoclimatic conditions. The phylogenetic placement of fossil gekkotans has important repercusions for timetree calibration, but at present only a small number of fossils can be confidently assigned to even family level groupings, limiting their utility in this regard. Anat Rec,

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A Fossil Leaf-Toed Gecko from the Oppenheim/Nierstein Quarry (Lower Miocene, Germany)

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Phylogeny of a trans‐Wallacean radiation (Squamata, Gekkonidae,Gehyra) supports a single early colonization of Australia

Phylogeny of a trans‐Wallacean radiation (Squamata, Gekkonidae,Gehyra) supports a single early colonization of Australia

New Zealand geckos (Diplodactylidae): Cryptic diversity in a post-Gondwanan lineage with trans-Tasman affinities

On the Fossil Record of the Gekkota

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