Miocene Snakes of Eurasia: A Review of the Evolution of Snake
Communities

C 2022

Miocene Snakes of Eurasia: A Review of the Evolution of Snake Communities

IVANOV, Martin

Basic information

Original name

Miocene Snakes of Eurasia: A Review of the Evolution of Snake Communities

Authors

IVANOV, Martin (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Cambridge, The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes, p. 85-110, 26 pp. 2022

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

10506 Paleontology

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/22:00126513

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

ISBN

978-1-108-93889-1

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108938891.007

Keywords in English

fossils; evolution; systematics; palaeoenvironment; palaeogeography; extinction; stratigraphy; palaeoclimate; Neogene; Cenozoic

Abstract

V originále

Eurasian Miocene snake taxa, localities, stratigraphy, palaeogeography, and palaeoenvironment are reviewed. Palaeogeographic evolution of Paratethys facilitated communication between European and Asiatic faunas since the early Oligocene, with at least two main routes from Asia or Africa into Europe. The early Burdigalian saw spreading of non-erycid Booidea and the first ‘Oriental vipers’ in Europe, which dispersed substantially within Eurasia during late Ottnangian warming. This warm climate, culminating as the Miocene Climatic Optimum, was associated with the middle Burdigalian first appearance of highly thermophilic Naja and Python in Europe. Python disappeared in Europe at the end of the Langhian due to rapid cooling, but Naja and ‘Oriental vipers’ persisted until the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene, respectively. Communication among mid-latitude Asian and European assemblages occurred across the early–middle Miocene, but this Eurasian fauna was heterogeneous, at least since the middle Miocene. Miocene S and SE Asian snakes resemble those of today. Increasing end-Miocene aridity and Eurasia–Africa connection facilitated invasion into Eurasia of African and SW Asian taxa.

Citovat

IVANOV, Martin. Miocene Snakes of Eurasia: A Review of the Evolution of Snake Communities. Online. In David J. Gower, Hussam Zaher. The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, p. 85-110. ISBN 978-1-108-93889-1. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108938891.007.

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IVANOV, Martin. Miocene Snakes of Eurasia: A Review of the Evolution of Snake Communities. Online. In David J. Gower, Hussam Zaher. \textit{The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes}. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, p.~85-110. ISBN~978-1-108-93889-1. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108938891.007.

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