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1 December 2010 Euleptes gallica Müller (Squamata: Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) from the Lower Miocene of North-West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Andrej Čerňanský, Aaron M. Bauer
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Abstract

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.

Andrej Čerňanský and Aaron M. Bauer "Euleptes gallica Müller (Squamata: Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) from the Lower Miocene of North-West Bohemia, Czech Republic," Folia Zoologica 59(4), 323-328, (1 December 2010). https://doi.org/10.25225/fozo.v59.i4.a8.2010
Received: 20 January 2010; Accepted: 1 June 2010; Published: 1 December 2010
KEYWORDS
Eggenburgian
Lizards
morphology
the Merkur-North locality
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