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1	  	  63RD SYMPOSIUM FOR VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY  &  24TH SYMPOSIUM OF PALAEONTOLOGICAL PREPARATION AND CONSERVATION WITH THE GEOLOGICAL CURATORS’ GROUP     SVPCA	  Talks	  	  74	  	  A review of fossil gekkotans from the Neogene and Quaternary of Italy  Andrea Villa 1  1 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy   Six Italian Neogene and Quaternary localities have yielded fossils of geckos: Gargano "terre rosse", Late Miocene; Moncucco Torinese, latest Miocene; Cava 6 near Orosei, Pleistocene; Valdemino Cave, Middle Pleistocene; K 22, Middle-Late Pleistocene; San Teodoro, Late Pleistocene. Remains comprehend maxillae, frontals, dentaries, indeterminate tooth-bearing bones, vertebrae and humeri. After a comparative analysis of cranial bones of the four extant species of European gekkotans (Euleptes europaea, Hemidactylus turcicus, Mediodactylus kotschyi and Tarentola mauritanica), maxillae and frontals turned out to be the most informative among Italian fossil findings, whereas dentaries and tooth-bearing bones are less useful. Such comparative analysis has not been carried out on postcranial skeleton so far. Using the newly identified diagnostic features, fossils have been referred to Euleptes sp. (Gargano), cf. Euleptes sp. (Moncucco), Hemidactylus cf. H. turcicus (Valdemino), Tarentola mauritanica (K 22) and Gekkota indet. (San Teodoro). Remains from Cava 6 and a frontal from K 22 have not been studied yet.    

A review of fossil gekkotans from the Neogene and Quaternary of Italy

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A review of fossil gekkotans from the Neogene and Quaternary of Italy

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