Euleptes gallica Müller (Squamata: Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) from the Lower Miocene of North-West Bohemia, Czech Republic

Title:

Euleptes gallica Müller (Squamata: Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) from the Lower Miocene of North-West Bohemia, Czech Republic

Creator:

Čerňanský, Andrej and Bauer, Aaron M.

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:82bb55da-cfe6-71d3-f741-709e19b756d6
uuid:82bb55da-cfe6-71d3-f741-709e19b756d6

Subject:

morphology, lizards, Eggenburgian, and the Merkur-North locality

Type:

article and TEXT

Description:

Gekkotan lizards are widely distributed in tropical regions and extend into more northern regions in Asia and Europe. Unfortunately, gekkotans lack significant fossil record and many aspects of their evolutionary biology are still poorly understood. Our study provides the first information about occurrence of this group in the Czech Republic. The fossil material comes from the Lower Miocene sediments (MN 3) of the locality Merkur-North. All the gekkonid bones can be assigned to the family Sphaerodactylidae and represent a single taxon, Euleptes gallica. This taxon was previously known only from the French locality Montaigu (zone MN 2), and thus our study extends its stratigraphic and geographic range.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Source:

Folia zoologica | 2010 Volume:59 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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