Amphibians and reptiles from the Early Miocene of the Bardenas Reales of Navarre (Ebro Basin, Iberian Peninsula)

A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the CladePan-Chelydridae

“…As for all Miocene material, I assign all undiagnostic material to Chelydropsis sp., including remains from Austria (Böhme and Vasilyan 2014), the Czech Republic (Laube 1900(Laube , 1910Schlosser and Hibsch 1902), France (see for a detailed list of localities), Germany (Groessens- Van Dyck and Schleich 1985;Schleich 1986;Strauch 1990;Karl 2013), Moldova (Khosatzky and Redkozubov 1989), Romania (Ml ⁄ ynarski 1966), Ukraine (Khosatzky 1949(Khosatzky , 1966(Khosatzky , 1982Chkhikvadze 1980) and, though not technically part of Europe, nearby Anatolia, Turkey (Paicheler et al 1978). I here refer diagnostic early Miocene remains from Spain to Chelydropsis decheni (Murelaga et al 1999;Murelaga et al 2002) and Middle to Late Miocene remains from Austria (Peters 1855(Peters , 1868(Peters , 1869Gross 2002), France Lapparent de Broin 2000), Germany (Bell 1836;Meyer 1845Meyer , 1852Winkler 1869;Fraas 1870;Fuchs 1939;Ml ⁄ ynarski 1980b;Schleich 1981;Gaffney and Schleich 1994;Klein and Mörs 2003), Poland (Ml ⁄ ynarski 1981a(Ml ⁄ ynarski , 1981b and Ukraine (Pidoplichko and Tarashchuk 1960;Tarashchuk 1971) to Chelydropsis murchisoni. Due to a lack of figures, I am unable to confirm the specific identity of additional fragmentary material from Austria (Teppner 1914(Teppner , 1915, Germany …”

“…Using the same characters, Chkhikvadze (1999) further emphasized the distinctness of these two groups by creating the taxon Chelydrasia for the decheni-sanctihenrici group, with the Asian Chelydropsis minax serving as the type species. Although some argued that Chelydrasia should be restricted to Asiatic forms to render a European Chelydropsis (e.g., Murelaga et al 2002), others have followed the classification of Chkhikvadze (e.g., Hutchison 2008).…”

“…The European fossil record was only later supplemented by mostly fragmentary finds from the Czech Republic (Laube 1900(Laube , 1910, France , Kazakhstan (Chkhikvadze 1971(Chkhikvadze , 1973, Moldova (Khosatzky and Redkozubov 1989), Poland (Ml ⁄ ynarski 1981a(Ml ⁄ ynarski , 1981b, Romania (Ml ⁄ ynarski 1966(Ml ⁄ ynarski , 1969, Slovakia (Ml ⁄ ynarski 1963; Danilov et al 2012), Spain (Murelaga et al 1999;Murelaga et al 2002), Ukraine (Pidoplichko and Tarashchuk 1960;Tarashchuk 1971), and Turkey (Paicheler et al 1978). Additional fossil material has been reported from Georgia and Russia (see Syromyatnikova et al 2013 for a summary); however, none has been figured, and it is therefore not possible to reproduce these reports.…”

Fossil lizards and snakes from Ano Metochi – a diverse squamate fauna from the latest Miocene of northern Greece

“…During the Miocene Ophisaurus or Ophisaurus-like forms became widespread throughout Europe. Their remains have up to this date been recovered from Austria (Böhme 2002;Miklas-Tempfer 2003;Böhme and Vasilyan 2014), The Czech Republic (Klembara 1979(Klembara , 1981(Klembara , 2014Roček 1984), France (Augé and Rage 2000;Rage and Bailon 2005), Germany (Jörg 1965;Prieto et al 2009;Böhme 2010;Čerňanský et al 2015), Hungary (Venczel 2006;Venczel and Hír 2015), Italy (Delfino 2002;Venczel and Sanchiz 2006;Rook et al 2015), Portugal (Antunes and Mein 1981;Crespo 2001), Romania (Hír and Venczel 2005;Venczel et al 2005;Venczel and Ştiucă 2008), Slovakia (Klembara 1986), Spain (Murelaga et al 2002;Blain 2005), and Switzerland (Jost et al 2015;Mennecart et al 2016). Following the end of the Miocene the clade is in demise and their Pliocene record is scarce (Bailon 1989;Čerňanský 2011;Delfino et al 2011).…”

Micromammalian faunas from the Middle Miocene (Middle Aragonian) of the Tudela Formation (Ebro Basin, Spain)

“…The sedimentological environment during the deposition of the Tudela Formation favours the presence of a great number of micro-and macromammal sites in the stratigraphic sequence of this formation. In the past two decades our team has performed an extensive paleontological and magnetostratigraphical investigation that has increased the paleontological knowledge and established a detailed chronology of the fossiliferous sites in the span between Late Agenian and Late Ramblian (Murelaga 2000;Murelaga et al 2002;Murelaga et al 2004aMurelaga et al , 2004bLarrasoaña et al 2006;Ruiz-Sánchez et al 2010a, 2010bRuiz-Sánchez et al 2012a, 2012b, 2012cFigs 1, 2). So far, the younger deposits of the Tudela Formation had not been studied.…”