Late Paleogene herpetofaunas from the crossroads between two continents - new amphibian and reptile remains from the Oligocene of southern Balkans and Anatolia

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Georgalis, Georgios L., Čerňanský, Andrej, Mayda, Serdar (2021): Late Paleogene herpetofaunas from the crossroads between two continents - new amphibian and reptile remains from the Oligocene of southern Balkans and Anatolia. Comptes Rendus Palevol 20 (15): 253-275, DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a15, URL: 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, scinciformatans, anguines, and “tropidophiids”. Albanerpetontids are for the first time identified in southeastern 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.