A small sample of fossil vertebrae of amphibians and reptiles found in the historical collection of the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Torino is here described. The fossils most likely originate from the same deposits as the old collections from Weisenau, in the Mainz Basin. In spite of the small number of remains, at least five taxa are recognized: one urodele (Salamandra sansaniensis), one lizard (Pseudopus sp.), and three snakes (Falseryx petersbuchi, Zamenis kohfidischi, and Vipera antiqua). Records of only one of these, the viper, were already properly published in previous accounts on the site, whereas the urodele and lizard were only mentioned in literature, which we are now able to confirm. The other two snakes are identified in the early Miocene of Weisenau for the first time. For at least four of the identified taxa, the Weisenau occurrence is the oldest known. This small sample supports the hypothesis that the early Miocene of Europe was an important step towards establishing its modern herpetofauna, soon after the Oligocene/Miocene transition.

这里描述了在都灵大学地质和古生物学博物馆的历史收藏中发现的两栖动物和爬行动物的一小块化石椎骨样本。这些化石很可能与美因茨盆地 Weisenau 的旧藏品来自相同的矿床。尽管遗骸数量很少，但至少有五个类群被识别：一种 urodele ( Salamandra sansaniensis )、一种蜥蜴 ( Pseudupus sp.) 和三种蛇 ( Falseryx petersbuchi、Zamenis kohfidischi和Vipera antiqua）。其中只有一种的记录，毒蛇，已经在网站上的先前帐户中正确发布，而 urodele 和蜥蜴只在文献中提到，我们现在可以确认。另外两条蛇是在魏森瑙的中新世早期首次被发现的。对于至少四个已识别的分类群，Weisenau 是已知最古老的。这个小样本支持了这样一个假设，即欧洲的早期中新世是在渐新世/中新世过渡后不久建立现代爬虫动物群的重要一步。