Late middle Miocene amphibians and squamate reptiles from Taut ,, Romania Author Venczel, Márton Tării ‚ Crişurilor Museum, B-dul Dacia 1 - 3, RO- 410464 Oradea (Romania) mvenczel @ rdslink. ro mvenczel@rdslink.ro Author Stiuc, Emanoil Speleological Institute “ Emil Racovit, ă ”, Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13, RO- 050711 Bucureşti (Romania) stiucaemil @ yahoo. com. stiucaemil@yahoo.com text Geodiversitas 2008 30 4 731 763 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.4665621 1638-9395 4665621 Hyla cf. arborea ( Fig. 11 A-C) MATERIAL EXAMINED. — One prearticular ( ISER Tt-0410), five ilia ( ISER Tt-0411/1-5). DESCRIPTION Prearticular The bone is faintly S-shaped with both the anterior and posterior margins broken off. The coronoid process is elongated, relatively narrow and provided with small tubercles on its medial margin ( Fig. 11C ). Late middle Miocene amphibians and reptiles from Taut,, Romania Ilium The supraacetabular region of the ilium is distinctly smaller than the preacetabular region ( Fig. 11A, B ). The tuber superior, of roughly oval shape, is prominent and projects laterally. The iliac shaft is curved ventrally and strongly compressed mediolaterally; the iliac crest is reduced to a faint ridge. REMARKS The assignment of the above remains to Hyla cf. arborea is based on their close resemblance with those of Recent species. On the other hand, H. arborea (Linnaeus, 1758) may be easily distinguished from H. meridionalis Boettger, 1874 by the morphology of the ilium, in the latter the iliac tuber superius having a rounded shape ( Holman 1992 ). More- over, the spread of H. meridionalis in southwestern Venczel M. & Ştiucă E. Europe may have happened rather recently ( Recuero et al . 2007 ). The oldest fossils referable with some doubts to Hylidae are known from the Maastrichtian of India ( Prasad & Rage 1995 , 2004 ), while the first record of the genus Hyla in Europe is from the late early Miocene (MN 4) of Austria ( Sanchiz 1998a ). Several fossils from the late middle Miocene (MN 7) of Mátraszőlős, Hungary were already assigned to H. cf. arborea by Venczel (2004) . Family RANIDAE Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1814