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Helodermatidae (disused)
Taxonomy
Helodermatidae was named by Gray (1837). It is extant. Its type is Heloderma.
It was corrected as Helodermidae by Hay (1930), Kuhn (1946) and Frank and Ramus (1996).
It was assigned to Diploglossa by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Helodermatoidea by Baur (1890); to Lacertae by Gadow (1898); to Lacertidi by Perrier (1928); to Anguioidae by Hay (1930); to Anguoidea by Kuhn (1946); to Platynota by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Varanoidea by Kuhn (1966), Seiffert (1975), Estes (1983), Estes et al. (1988) and Carroll (1988); to Anguimorpha by Gao and Fox (1996); to Lacertilia by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Monstersauria by Norell and Gao (1997); and to Anguimorpha by Peng et al. (2001).
It was corrected as Helodermidae by Hay (1930), Kuhn (1946) and Frank and Ramus (1996).
It was assigned to Diploglossa by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Helodermatoidea by Baur (1890); to Lacertae by Gadow (1898); to Lacertidi by Perrier (1928); to Anguioidae by Hay (1930); to Anguoidea by Kuhn (1946); to Platynota by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Varanoidea by Kuhn (1966), Seiffert (1975), Estes (1983), Estes et al. (1988) and Carroll (1988); to Anguimorpha by Gao and Fox (1996); to Lacertilia by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Monstersauria by Norell and Gao (1997); and to Anguimorpha by Peng et al. (2001).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1837 | Helodermatidae Gray |
| 1871 | Helodermidae Cope p. 236 |
| 1875 | Helodermidae Cope p. 19 |
| 1890 | Helodermatidae Baur p. 262 |
| 1898 | Helodermatidae Gadow p. 26 |
| 1928 | Helodermatidae Perrier p. 3096 |
| 1930 | Helodermidae Hay p. 252 |
| 1946 | Helodermidae Kuhn p. 61 |
| 1954 | Helodermatidae McDowell and Bogert p. 131 |
| 1966 | Helodermatidae Kuhn p. 57 |
| 1975 | Helodermatidae Seiffert p. 10 |
| 1983 | Helodermatidae Estes |
| 1988 | Helodermatidae Carroll |
| 1988 | Helodermatidae Estes et al. |
| 1996 | Helodermidae Frank and Ramus |
| 1996 | Helodermatidae Gao and Fox p. 81 |
| 1997 | Helodermatidae Norell and Gao pp. 11-12 |
| 2001 | Helodermatidae Peng et al. p. 30 |
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Fm. Helodermatidae Gray 1837
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| E. Perrier 1928 | Rattachés aux Orvets par la forme de leur langue, leurs dents pleurodontes, recourbées en crochets, préhensiles, renflées à la base; mais ces dents sont creusées d'une gouttière sur leurs faces antérieure et postérieure, et sont en rapport dans la mâchoire inférieure avec des glandes à venin. Les seuls Sauriens venimeux avec les suivants. Peau granuleuse, parsemée de nombreux tubercules irréguliers, disposés en rangées transversales. Corps lourd, large, aplati. Pattes à 5 doigts. Aspect d'une Salamandre. | |
| S. B. McDowell and C. M. Bogert 1954 | Jugal extending forward to meet prefrontal; lacrimal foramen single; vagus passing through the jugular foramen; splenial sutured along ventral margin of coronoid; descending processes of frontals meeting to underarch the olfactory tracts, but not separating the orbits; teeth with venom channels; no temporal arch; no pineal foramen; pro-otic and parietal forming a very short and imperfect contact; vertebral centra not constricted anterior to condyles; vertebral central articulations oblique; phalangeal formula 2-3-4-5-3; sacrum of two vertebrae; pelvis complete; cervical vertebrae eight; no coracoid emarginations; interclavicle longitudinally rod-shaped; postorbital arch complete; osteoderms large, covering dorsal surface and outer surfaces of limbs. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Pianka and Vitt 2003, Carroll 1988, Behler and King 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections (25 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judithian | Canada (Alberta) | Helodermatidae indet. (116537) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Helodermatidae indet. (45671 45822 45893 45897 45898 45899) | |
| Middle Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Helodermatidae indet. (45560 45561 45564 45565 45567 45670) | |
| Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Helodermatidae indet. (45819 45821) | |
| Ypresian | Belgium (Brabant) | Helodermatidae indet. (35531) | |
| Ypresian | France (Marne) | Helodermatidae indet. (35533) | |
| Lysitean - Lostcabinian | USA (Wyoming) | Helodermatidae indet. (15451) | |
| MP 10 | France (Picardie) | Helodermatidae indet. (68440) | |
| MP 8 + 9 | France (Picardie) | Helodermatidae indet. (84997) | |
| Bartonian | France (Languedoc-Roussillon Region) | Helodermatidae indet. (31736) | |
| MP 22 | France (Quercy) | Helodermatidae indet. (179142) | |
| MP 23 | France (Quercy) | Helodermatidae indet. (179147) | |
| Rupelian | France | Helodermatidae indet. (183381) | |
| Arikareean | USA (Florida) | Helodermatidae indet. (17476) |