Neonatrix Holman, 1973

Rage, Jean-Claude & Bailon, Salvador, 2005, Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late early Miocene (MN 4) of Béon 1 (Montréal-du-Gers, southwestern France), Geodiversitas 27 (3), pp. 413-441 : 432

Genus Neonatrix Holman, 1973

Neonatrix is an extinct genus from the Miocene of North America and Europe; it perhaps extends up to the early Pliocene in Europe ( Venczel 2001). Species assigned to Neonatrix are characterized by their small size and short hypapophyses that do not project posteriorly behind the limit of the condyle. Szyndlar & Schleich (1993) and Szyndlar & Böhme (1993) rightly questioned the validity of this genus. It might be only an artificial, polyphyletic taxon based on homoplastic features, that should be split into two or more genera. However, we retain it pending further studies.