Calanguban

Calanguban
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Infraorder: Scincomorpha
Genus: Calanguban
Simões et al., 2014
Type species
Calanguban alamoi
Simões et al., 2014

Calanguban is an extinct genus of scincomorph lizard from the Early Cretaceous of South America. The type species Calanguban alamoi was named in 2014 from the Crato Formation of Brazil and is the oldest known non-iguanian lizard from the continent. It likely had an arboreal lifestyle.[1]

References

  1. Simões, Tiago R.; Caldwell, Michael W.; Kellner, Alexander W. A. (2014). "A new Early Cretaceous lizard species from Brazil, and the phylogenetic position of the oldest known South American squamates". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 13 (7): 601. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.947342.
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