The last amphisbaenian (Squamata) from continental Eastern Europe

The fossil record of amphisbaenians in Europe has recently been augmented through the description ofnew finds across the continent. It has been suggested that the post-Miocene range of amphisbaenians fol-lowed a progressive southward constriction that ultimately lead to their extant disjunct distribution. Weherein describe amphisbaenian vertebral material from the Pliocene of northern Greece, which demon-strates that these reptiles were still present in the late Neogene of the southern Balkans. The new findrepresents the youngest occurrence of amphisbaenians in continental Eastern Europe and further high-lights the role of the Greek area as a biogeographic “refugium” for certain reptile groups during the lateNeogene and Quaternary.