Macrorhineura skinneri Macdonald 1970 (worm lizard)

Reptilia - Squamata - Rhineuridae

Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1970. Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 8:165-82

Belongs to Macrorhineura according to J. R. Macdonald 1970

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LACM 9249, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Sharps (SDSM V-541), which is in a Geringian terrestrial horizon in the Sharps Formation of South Dakota.

Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Sharps (SDSM V-541)

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