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Anura

Anura

Fischer, 1813

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Remarks. Numerous fossil elements can be assigned to anurans, but are either too poorly preserved or not taxonomically significant enough for a more refined identification.
Villa, Andrea, Macaluso, Loredana, Mörs, Thomas (2024): Miocene and Pliocene amphibians from Hambach (Germany): New evidence for a late Neogene refuge in northwestern Europe. Palaeontologia Electronica (a 3) 27 (1): 1-56, DOI: 10.26879/1323, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/1323
Material. Hambach 6 C: four premaxillae (IPB-HaH 2268 / 2270, IPB-HaH 2299); 51 fragments of maxilla (IPB-HaH 2233 / 2265, IPB-HaH 2282 / 2298, IPB-HaH 2300); 17 trunk vertebrae (IPB-HaH 2089 / 2097, IPB-HaH 2144 / 2145, IPB-HaH 2157 / 2158, IPB-HaH 2181 / 2183, IPB-HaH 2192); seven sacral vertebrae (IPB-HaH 2087, IPB-HaH 2206 / 2208, IPB-HaH 2217 / 2218, IPB-HaH 2225); 12 urostyles (IPB-HaH 2088, IPB-HaH 2197 / 2198, IPB-HaH 2201 / 2205, IPB-HaH 2216, IPB-HaH 2226 / 2227, IPB-HaH 2306); three coracoids (IPB-HaH 2313 / 2314, IPB-HaH 2378); nine humeri (IPB-HaH 2063, IPB-HaH 2303 / 2304, IPB-HaH 2311 / 2312, IPB-HaH 2317 / 2318, IPB-HaH 2331); five radioulnae (IPB-HaH 2301 / 2302, IPB-HaH 2309, IPB-HaH 2330, IPB-HaH 2335); two ilia (IPB-HaH 2319 / 2320); one ischium (IPB-HaH 2322); one femur (IPB-HaH 2326); 14 tibiofibulae (IPB-HaH 2054, IPB-HaH 2062, IPB-HaH 2064 / 2068, IPB-HaH 2305, IPB-HaH 2310, IPB-HaH 2327, IPB-HaH 2332 / 2334, IPB-HaH 2400); four indeterminate elements (IPB-HaH 2308, IPB-HaH 2315, IPB-HaH 2328, IPB-HaH 2398). Hambach 11: 29 maxillae (IPB-HaR 2044 / 2070, IPB-HaR 2177 / 2178); one angular (IPB-HaR 2114); two atlases (IPB-HaR 2025, IPB-HaR 2035); five trunk vertebrae (IPB-HaR 2024; IPB-HaR 2027 / 2029; IPB-HaR 2037); two sacral vertebrae (IPB-HaR 2026, IPB-HaR 2036); three urostyles (IPB-HaR 2038 / 2040); two coracoids (IPB-HaR 2125 / 2126); two scapulae (IPB-HaR 2072 / 2073); 10 humeri (IPB-HaR 2089 / 2095, IPB-HaR 2108 / 2109, IPB-HaR 2153); 16 radioulnae (IPB-HaR 2074 / 2079, IPB-HaR 2107, IPB-HaR 2123 / 2124, IPB-HaR 2128, IPB-HaR 2155 / 2157, IPB-HaR 2180 / 2182); four ilia (IPB-HaR 2085 / 2086, IPB-HaR 2104 / 2105); one ischium (IPB-HaR 2106); three femurs (IPB-HaR 2133 / 2134, IPB-HaR 2141); 25 tibiofibulae (IPB-HaR 2080 / 2082, IPB-HaR 2118 / 2122, IPB-HaR 2135 / 2140, IPB-HaR 2158 / 2168); one indeterminate element (IPB-HaR 2169). Hambach 11 C: three maxillae (IPB-HaR 2422 / 2424); one ornamented bone fragment (IPB-HaR 2430); four tibiofibulae (IPB-HaR 2410 / 2413); one indeterminate element (IPB-HaR 2409).
Villa, Andrea, Macaluso, Loredana, Mörs, Thomas (2024): Miocene and Pliocene amphibians from Hambach (Germany): New evidence for a late Neogene refuge in northwestern Europe. Palaeontologia Electronica (a 3) 27 (1): 1-56, DOI: 10.26879/1323, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/1323

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FIGURE 23. Reptiles from Hambach: right squamosal (IPB-HaH 2340) of Chamaeleo aff. andrusovi in lateral (A) and medial (B) views; left frontal (IPB-HaR 2171) of Pseudopus cf. pannonicus in dorsal (C) and ventral (D) views. Scale bars equal 1 mm.

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Miocene and Pliocene amphibians from Hambach (Germany): New evidence for a late Neogene refuge in northwestern Europe

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Villa, Andrea, Macaluso, Loredana, Mörs, Thomas (2024): Miocene and Pliocene amphibians from Hambach (Germany): New evidence for a late Neogene refuge in northwestern Europe. Palaeontologia Electronica (a 3) 27 (1): 1-56, DOI: 10.26879/1323, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/1323

ABSTRACT

The Hambach lignite mine in northwestern Germany is a renowned fossil locality, which has yielded remains of several vertebrates dated back to the Middle Miocene and the Late Pliocene. Among these is a recently-described and peculiar proteid urodele, Euronecturus grogu, currently known only from the Middle Miocene level in Hambach. Here, we provide detailed descriptions and identifications of the remaining fossil amphibians (both urodeles and anurans) from the Hambach mine, in total identifying at least 12 Middle Miocene taxa (Cryptobranchidae indet., Palaeoproteus cf. miocenicus, E. grogu, Chelotriton sp., Lissotriton sp., Triturus sp., Latonia sp.,? Palaeobatrachidae indet., Pelobatidae indet., Hyla sp., Pelophylax sp., Rana sp.) and at least nine Late Pliocene ones (Palaeoproteus cf. miocenicus, Mioproteus cf. wezei, Lissotriton sp., Latonia sp., Palaeobatrachus eurydices, cf. Eopelobates sp., Hyla sp., Bufo gr. bufo, Ranidae indet.). The high diversity of amphibians in both Miocene and Pliocene levels at Hambach supports a very humid climate persisting in the area for most of the Neogene, possibly originating a refugium for these animals in northwestern Europe that persisted until the Late Pliocene (and possibly even the Early Pleistocene). Urodeles such as Palaeoproteus and Mioproteus and anurans such as Latonia, the palaeobatrachids, and possibly Eopelobates are all significant occurrences in such a northern latitude at the end of the Pliocene, a period when southward withdrawal of thermophilic animals as well as the first effects of a deteriorizing climate ultimately leading to the Quaternary glaciation had already started in the European continent.

Andrea Villa. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, c/ Columnes s/n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain. andrea.villa@icp.cat

Loredana Macaluso. Natural Sciences Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Domplatz 4, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany. loredana.macaluso@zns.uni-halle.de

Thomas Mörs. Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, PO Box 50007, SE 10405, Stockholm, Sweden; Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Geovetenskapens hus, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, Stockholm, Sweden.

thomas.moers@nrm.se

Villa A, Macaluso L, Mörs T, felipe (2024). Miocene and Pliocene amphibians from Hambach (Germany): New evidence for a late Neogene refuge in northwestern Europe. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/e5mg5t accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 12/31/2024View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
226325443
Dataset Key
dbf14828-431e-497d-9703-0a53b1864567
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Backbone Key
952
Taxon ID
03F52665D074FFA9FB8A9AE3FDCE7071.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026
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