Lacertidae, BONAPARTE, 1831

Syromyatnikova, Elena, Tesakov, Alexey, Mayda, Serdar, Kaya, Tanju & Saraç, Gerçek, 2019, Plio-Pleistocene Amphibians And Reptiles From Central Turkey: New Faunas And Faunal Records With Comments On Their Biochronological Position Based On Small Mammals, Fossil Imprint 75 (3 - 4), pp. 343-358 : 353

Lacertidae indet.

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M a t e r i a l. One maxilla, EUNHM PV-13239,

Nasrettinhoca 1, early Pliocene, MN 14.

D e s c r i p t i o n. The maxilla is incomplete and represented by a fragment of its anterior part. It bears pleurodont teeth. Only three teeth are preserved. All teeth are cylindrical, slender, and vertical; their bases are not expanded. The height of the teeth does not exceed approximately 1 mm. The tooth apices are bicuspid.

R e m a r k s. The fragmentary maxilla from Nasrettinhoca 1 clearly shows the typical character of Lacertidae , i.e. the pleurodont bicuspid teeth (e.g. Estes et al. 1988). Lacertidae are highly abundant and variable in the region of modern day Turkey. This makes the identification of fragmentary material such as the specimen from Nasrettinhoca 1 problematic. The small size of the maxilla would suggest the presence of a relatively small-sized taxon.

Figures

Text-fig. 6. Squamates: a – vertebra of Amphisbaenia indet. from Nasrettinhoca 1, in dorsal (a1), ventral (a2), lateral (a3), anterior (a4), and posterior (a5) views, EUNHM PV-13238; b – right maxilla of Lacertidae indet. from Nasrettinhoca 1, in lateral (b1) and medial (b2) views, EUNHM PV-13239; c – cervical vertebra of Natrix sp. from Hamamkarahisar B, in dorsal (c1), ventral (c2), lateral (c3), anterior (c4), andposterior (c5) views, EUNHM PV-13240; d – trunk vertebra of Natricinae indet. from Nasrettinhoca 2, in dorsal (d1), ventral (d2), lateral (d3), anterior (d4), and posterior (d5) views, EUNHM PV-13241; e – vertebra of cf. Colubrinae indet. from Yenişarbademli, in ventral (e1), dorsal (e2), and anterior (e3) views, EUNHM PV-13262. Scale equals 1 mm.