Remains of the Quaternary amphibians and reptiles coming from the “Bate” cave on the northern coast of the Island of Crete (about 4 km west of the town of Rethymnon) are examined in this work. The herpetofauna, of Upper Pleistocene age, is formed by four species: 1) Bufo cf. viridis Laurenti, 2) Testudo marginata cretensis Bachmayer, Brinkerink and Symeonidis, 3) Lacerta cf. erhardi Bedriaga and 4) Coluber cf. gemonensis (Laurenti). Only the tortoise is of palaeontological interest considering the...
In this work are described a few remains of amphibians and reptiles from the lower—middle Pleistocene layer of Loreto di Venosa (Potenza, Southern Italy). Two species of toads, Bufo bufo (Linnaeus) and Bufo cf. viridis Laurenti and two species of turtles, Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus) and Testudo cf. hermanni'Gmelin have been found. The systematic position and the habitat of the abovementioned species is shortly discussed.
In this paper two molars of a glirid found in the Lower Villafranchian layer of Su Casteddu (Nuoro, Sardinia) are described. The molars belong to the genus Hypnomys Bate, which is known only for the Plio-Pleistocene of the Balearic Islands. Hypnomys is the third genus of Pleistocène balearic mammalian fauna found in Sardinia. The other two are Nesiotites, a soricid known also in the Sardo-Corso massif and Myotragus, a rupicaprine very similar to «Antilope» melonii of Capo Figari. (NE Sardinia).
In this work a faunula of Tyrrhenian age from a brackish bed outcropping between the Tyrrhenian “panchina” and the Würmian aeolian dune at San Giovanni in Sinis (Oristano, Sardinia) are examined. The following species are present: Emys orbicularis, Mauremys cf. caspica, Coluber sp., Megaceros sp., Tyrrhenicola henseli, Prolagus sp. The presence of Mauremys cf. caspica, absent today in the herpetofauna of the island, is very interesting. The systematic position of the megacerine deer of Sardinia...
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