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Comptes Rendus comptes rendus palevol 2021 20 15 iles — Jean- pt Cl re au d d e n a R s a n g a e i — b i h P p a l a m e a o f b o i o y l h o p g a y r g a o n e d g p o i a l b a o e DIRECTEURS DE LA PUBLICATION / PUBLICATION DIRECTORS : Bruno David, Président du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Étienne Ghys, Secrétaire perpétuel de l’Académie des sciences RÉDACTEURS EN CHEF / EDITORS-IN-CHIEF : Michel Laurin (CNRS), Philippe Taquet (Académie des sciences) ASSISTANTE DE RÉDACTION / ASSISTANT EDITOR : Adeline Lopes (Académie des sciences ; [email protected]) MISE EN PAGE / PAGE LAYOUT : Audrina Neveu (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle ; [email protected]) RÉVISIONS LINGUISTIQUES DES TEXTES ANGLAIS / ENGLISH LANGUAGE REVISIONS : Kevin Padian (University of California at Kerkeley) RÉDACTEURS ASSOCIÉS / ASSOCIATE EDITORS (*, took charge of the editorial process of the article/a pris en charge le suivi éditorial de l’article) : Micropaléontologie/Micropalaeontology Maria Rose Petrizzo (Università di Milano, Milano) Paléobotanique/Palaeobotany Cyrille Prestianni (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels) Métazoaires/Metazoa Annalisa Ferretti (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena) Paléoichthyologie/Palaeoichthyology Philippe Janvier (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Académie des sciences, Paris) Amniotes du Mésozoïque/Mesozoic amniotes Hans-Dieter Sues (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington) Tortues/Turtles Juliana Sterli (CONICET, Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew) Lépidosauromorphes/Lepidosauromorphs Hussam Zaher* (Universidade de São Paulo) Oiseaux/Birds Éric Buffetaut (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris) Paléomammalogie (mammifères de moyenne et grande taille)/Palaeomammalogy (large and mid-sized mammals) Lorenzo Rook (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze) Paléomammalogie (petits mammifères sauf Euarchontoglires)/Palaeomammalogy (small mammals except for Euarchontoglires) Robert Asher (Cambridge University, Cambridge) Paléomammalogie (Euarchontoglires)/Palaeomammalogy (Euarchontoglires) K. Christopher Beard (University of Kansas, Lawrence) Paléoanthropologie/Palaeoanthropology Roberto Macchiarelli (Université de Poitiers, Poitiers) Archéologie préhistorique/Prehistoric archaeology Marcel Otte (Université de Liège, Liège) RÉFÉRÉS / REVIEWERS : https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/referes-du-journal COUVERTURE / COVER : Extract of the Figure 6. Comptes Rendus Palevol est indexé dans / Comptes Rendus Palevol is indexed by: – Cambridge Scientific Abstracts – Current Contents® Physical – Chemical, and Earth Sciences® – ISI Alerting Services® – Geoabstracts, Geobase, Georef, Inspec, Pascal – Science Citation Index®, Science Citation Index Expanded® – Scopus®. Les articles ainsi que les nouveautés nomenclaturales publiés dans Comptes Rendus Palevol sont référencés par / Articles and nomenclatural novelties published in Comptes Rendus Palevol are registered on: – ZooBank® (http://zoobank.org) Comptes Rendus Palevol est une revue en flux continu publiée par les Publications scientifiques du Muséum, Paris et l’Académie des sciences, Paris Comptes Rendus Palevol is a fast track journal published by the Museum Science Press, Paris and the Académie des sciences, Paris Les Publications scientifiques du Muséum publient aussi / The Museum Science Press also publish: Adansonia, Geodiversitas, Zoosystema, Anthropozoologica, European Journal of Taxonomy, Naturae, Cryptogamie sous-sections Algologie, Bryologie, Mycologie. L’Académie des sciences publie aussi / The Académie des sciences also publishes: Comptes Rendus Mathématique, Comptes Rendus Physique, Comptes Rendus Mécanique, Comptes Rendus Chimie, Comptes Rendus Géoscience, Comptes Rendus Biologies. Diffusion – Publications scientifiques Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CP 41 – 57 rue Cuvier F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) Tél. : 33 (0)1 40 79 48 05 / Fax : 33 (0)1 40 79 38 40 [email protected] / https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr Académie des sciences, Institut de France, 23 quai de Conti, 75006 Paris. © Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle / © Académiedes sciences, Paris, 2021 ISSN (imprimé / print) : 1631-0683/ ISSN (électronique / electronic) : 1777-571X Late Paleogene herpetofaunas from the crossroads between two continents – new amphibian and reptile remains from the Oligocene of southern Balkans and Anatolia Georgios L. GEORGALIS Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006 Zurich (Switzerland) and Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125 Torino (Italy) and Department of Ecology, Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, 84215 Bratislava (Slovakia) [email protected] (corresponding author) Andrej ČERŇANSKÝ Department of Ecology, Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, 84215 Bratislava (Slovakia) Serdar MAYDA Department of Biology, Ege University, Bornova, 35100 Izmir (Turkey) Submitted on 4 February 2020 | Accepted on 2 April 2020 | Published on 13 April 2021 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:71DF9CD2-4B05-49C4-9386-D8163650A38E Georgalis G. L., Čerňanský A. & Mayda S. 2021. — Late Paleogene herpetofaunas from the crossroads between two continents – new amphibian and reptile remains from the Oligocene of southern Balkans and Anatolia, in Folie A., Buffetaut E., Bardet N., Houssaye A., Gheerbrant E. & Laurin M. (eds), Palaeobiology and palaeobiogeography of amphibians and reptiles: An homage to Jean-Claude Rage. Comptes Rendus Palevol 20 (15): 253-275. https://doi. org/10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a15 ABSTRACT We describe here new amphibian and reptile remains from three Oligocene localities of Turkey. Two of the localities (Kavakdere and Kocayarma) are situated in southeastern Europe and the other one (Kargi 2) in Anatolia, both areas where Oligocene herpetofauna is practically almost unknown. The material consists of albanerpetontids, pelobatid anurans, turtles, crocodylians, lacertids, scinci- formatans, anguines, and “tropidophiids”. Albanerpetontids are for the first time identified in south- eastern Europe, with the material being reminiscent of the younger species Albanerpeton inexpectatum Estes & Hoffstetter, 1976; the material potentially represents the oldest record of that species. Pelo- batids, scinciformatans, and “tropidophiids” represent the oldest occurrences of these clades in the KEY WORDS northeastern Mediterranean. The anguine genusOphisaurus Daudin, 1803 is identified for the first Albanerpetonidae, Anura, time in the Paleogene of Eastern Europe. The “tropidophiids” are referred to two genera,Falseryx Testudines, Szyndlar & Rage, 2003 and tentatively also to Platyspondylia Rage, 1974, with the latter having been Crocodylia, so far exclusively known from western and central Europe. The role of a potential southern dispersal Squamata, Oligocene, route of taxa among Asia and Europe, involving the area of southern Balkans and Anatolia, similarly biogeography. to what has been recently demonstrated for mammals, is highlighted also for amphibians and reptiles. COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL • 2021 • 20 (15) © Publications scientifiques du Muséum et/and Académie des sciences, Paris. www.cr-palevol.fr 253 Georgalis G. L. et al. RÉSUMÉ Herpétofaunes du Paléogène supérieur au carrefour entre deux continents – nouveaux restes d’amphibiens et de reptiles de l’Oligocène des Balkans du Sud et d’Anatolie. Nous décrivons ici de nouveaux restes d’amphibiens et de reptiles de trois localités oligocènes en Turquie. Deux des localités (Kavakdere et Kocayarma) sont situées dans le Sud-Est de l’Europe et l’autre (Kargi 2) en Anatolie, deux régions où l’herpétofaune Oligocène est pratiquement inconnue. Le matériel se compose d’albanerpétontidés, d’anoures pélobatidés, de tortues, de crocodyliens, de lacertidés, de scinciformatans, d’anguinés et de « tropidophiidés ». Les albanerpetontidés sont pour la première fois identifiés dans le Sud-Est de l’Europe, le matériel rappelant l’espèce plus jeune Albanerpeton inexpectatum Estes & Hoffstetter, 1976 ; le matériel représente potentiellement le plus ancien enregistrement de cette espèce. Les pélobatidés, les scinciformatans et les « tropidophiidés » représentent les occurrences les plus anciennes de ces clades au nord-est de la Méditerranée. Le genre d’anguiné Ophisaurus Daudin, 1803 est identifié pour la première fois durant le Paléogène en Europe MOTS CLÉS de l’Est. Les « tropidophiidés » se réfèrent à deux genres, Falseryx Szyndlar & Rage, 2003 et provi- Albanerpetonidae, Anura, soirement aussi à Platyspondylia Rage, 1974, ce dernier étant jusqu’à présent exclusivement connu Testudines, d’Europe occidentale et centrale. Le rôle d’une voie de dispersion potentielle vers le sud des taxons Crocodylia, entre l’Asie et l’Europe, impliquant la région des Balkans méridionaux et de l’Anatolie, de manière Squamata, Oligocène, similaire à ce qui a été récemment démontré pour les mammifères, est également mis en évidence biogéographie. pour les amphibiens et les reptiles. INTRODUCTION choristoderans is also present in the Oligocene of France and Germany, represented solely by the genus Lazarussuchus The Oligocene represents a major gap in our knowledge Hecht, 1992 (Hecht 1992; Böhme 2008). of Eurasian herpetofaunas (Rage 2013; Čerňanský et al. The situation is even worse in Asia,
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