Early Miocene squamate assemblage from the Mokrá-Western Quarry (Czech Republic) and its palaeobiogeographical and palaeoenvironmental implications

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F20%3A00117394" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/20:00117394 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a20" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a20</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a20" target="_blank" >10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a20</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Early Miocene squamate assemblage from the Mokrá-Western Quarry (Czech Republic) and its palaeobiogeographical and palaeoenvironmental implications

Original language description

Two fossiliferous karstic fissures from the Mokra-Western Quarry, MWQ (1/2001 Turtle Joint; 2/2003 Reptile Joint) provided a diverse vertebrate fauna from the early Miocene (Burdigalian, MN 4) including squamates. The rather warm climatic conditions during the Miocene Thermal Maximum (17.8-17.7 Ma) enabled dispersal of thermophilic lizards and snakes throughout Central Europe. In total, ten major Glades have been identified in MWQ localities, including: Lacertidae (Lacertidae indet., Lacertidae tooth morphotype 1 and 2); Amphisbaenia (Amphisbaenia indet.); ? Scincoidea (? Scincoidea indet.); Anguidae (Pseudopus laurillardi (Lartet, 1851), Pseudopus sp., Ophisaurus sp., and Anguinae indet.); Varanidae ( Varanus mokrensis Ivanov, Klembara, Ruta &amp; Bohme, 2018); Boidae (Bavarioboa cf. hermi Szyndlar &amp; Schleich, 1993); Pythonidae (Python sp.); Colubridae (Colubridae gen. et sp. indet., Coluber [s.1.] sp., and "Colubrinae" indet., type 1), Natricidae (Natrix sp. and "Natricinae" indet.); Viperidae (Viperinae ['Oriental vipers' group], Vipera sp. ['European vipers' group]); and Elapidae (Elapidae gen. et sp. indet.). Python sp. from the MWQ represents the first known occurrence of this most thermophilic Neogene squamate taxon within the area of Central Paratethys and we assume that MAT did not fall below 18-19 degrees C in the vicinity of this locality during the late Burdigalian stage. These humid subtropical to paratropical climatic conditions, also documented by several fill-aquatic and semi-aquatic amphibians and reptiles, were suitable for the occurrence of other thermophilic lizard and snake taxa reported from MWQ, including Varanus mokrensis, Pseudopus laurillardi, Bavarioboa, large Elapidae and 'Oriental vipers'.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10506 - Paleontology

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_027%2F0008360" target="_blank" >EF16_027/0008360: Postdoc@MUNI</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geodiversitas

ISSN

1280-9659

e-ISSN

1638-9395

Volume of the periodical

42

Issue of the periodical within the volume

20

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

34

Pages from-to

343-376

UT code for WoS article

000564475600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85093908180