Reptilia - Squamata - Priscagamidae
Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1943. Fossil lizards of Mongolia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 81(4):361-384
Belongs to Mimeosaurus according to V. R. Alifanov 2000
See also Borsuk-Bialynicka and Moody 1984, Estes 1983, Gao and Hou 1995, Gao and Hou 1996, Gao and Norell 2000 and Gilmore 1943
Sister taxon: Mimeosaurus tugrikinensis
Type specimen: AMNH 6655, a maxilla (left maxillary with dentition). Its type locality is Shabarakh Usu (AMNH loc. 12049), which is in a Campanian eolian sandstone in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (3 collections), Mongolia (4)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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