Jean-Claude Rage passed away on 30 March 2018. His unexpected death leaves a great void in the French palaeontological community and in the World palaeoherpetological community, of which he was an esteemed and prominent member. Jean-Claude's life and work have been the topic of recent papers, so that only a brief summary will be given here. During his distinguished career in palaeontology, at the “Centre national de la recherche scientifique” (CNRS), which he joined in 1968, Jean-Claude published several hundred papers, mainly in the field of palaeoherpetology, a topic on which he was an internationally recognized expert. Beyond the description of a large number of new taxa and faunal assemblages of amphibians and squamates, Jean-Claude consistently endeavoured to relate his anatomical and systematic work to larger palaeobiological and especially palaeobiogeographical issues. He was among the first French palaeontologists to interpret the fossil evidence he worked on in terms of continental drift and plate tectonics. This original expertise led Jean-Claude to teach continental palaeobiogeography to generations of students in several French universities and in the “Muséum national d’histoire naturelle” (MNHN, Paris). The collection of the fourteen papers of the present memorial volume tries to reflect Jean-Claude's wide range of scientific interests as well as his great interest for broader questions of vertebrate palaeontology. Jean-Claude even had other interests in natural history, as shown by his drawings of various extant animals. This special issue is the continuation of a similar issued dedicated to Jean-Claude Rage, which was published by Elsevier in 2019 (https://www.em-consulte.com/revue/PALEVO/18/7/table-des-matieres/).
The first part of the thematic is available here.
Barremian anurans of the Iberian Peninsula: new insights into their taxonomic diversity
Stratigraphy, age, and vertebrate palaeontology of the latest Cretaceous Quintanilla la Ojada locality (Basque-Cantabrian Region, northern Spain): a synthesis
José-Carmelo CORRAL et al.
91-117, Published on 22 February 2021, art. 20 (7) 
Palaeobiology and palaeobiogeography of amphibians and reptiles: An homage to Jean-Claude Rage – Part II
Annelise FOLIE et al.
201-206, Published on 06 April 2023, art. 22 (11) 
An enigmatic specialized new eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Western Europe (Northern Pyrenees)
Emmanuel GHEERBRANT & Dominique TEODORI
207-223, Published on 24 March 2021, art. 20 (13) 
Late Paleogene herpetofaunas from the crossroads between two continents – new amphibian and reptile remains from the Oligocene of southern Balkans and Anatolia
Georgios L. GEORGALIS et al.
253-275, Published on 13 April 2021, art. 20 (15) 
Rediscovery of “Liodon” asiaticum Répelin, 1915, a Mosasaurini (Squamata, Mosasauridae, Mosasaurinae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the vicinity of Jerusalem – Biostratigraphical insights from microfossils
Nathalie BARDET et al.
351-372, Published on 10 May 2021, art. 20 (20) 
The scratch-digging lifestyle of the Permian “microsaur” Batropetes Carroll & Gaskill, 1971 as a model for the exaptative origin of jumping locomotion in frogs
Maren JANSEN & David MARJANOVIĆ
463-488, Published on 06 July 2022, art. 21 (23) 
The anatomy, phylogenetic relationships, and autecology of the carnivorous lizard “Saniwa” feisti Stritzke, 1983 from the Eocene of Messel, Germany
Krister T. SMITH & Jörg HABERSETZER
441-506, Published on 09 June 2021, art. 20 (23) 
Revision of the oldest varanid, Saniwa orsmaelensis Dollo, 1923, from the earliest Eocene of northwest Europe
Marc Louis AUGÉ et al.
511-529, Published on 02 August 2022, art. 21 (25) 
The Early Pleistocene ectothermic vertebrates of Pietrafitta (Italy) and the last Western European occurrence of Latonia Meyer, 1843
Leonardo SORBELLI et al.
555-583, Published on 21 June 2021, art. 20 (26) 
