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Autarchoglossa is a clade (evolutionary grouping) of squamates that includes skinks, anguimorphs, snakes, and relatives. [1] Autarchoglossa is supported as a monophyletic grouping (i.e. a valid clade) by morphological features in living and extinct lizards and snakes.
Suborder: Autarchoglossa. Family: Teiidae. Eastern six-lined racerunner Aspidoscelis sexlineata sexlineata; Family: Scincidae. Coal skink Plestiodon anthracinus; Common five-lined skink Plestiodon fasciatus; Southeastern five-lined skink Plestiodon inexpectatus; Broad-headed skink Plestiodon laticeps; Little brown skink Scincella lateralis ...
Scleroglossa was first established as a node-based taxon, defined to include Gekkota and Autarchoglossa. Therefore, Scincogekkonomorpha rather than Scleroglossa is the proper sister taxon of Iguania. Therefore, Scincogekkonomorpha rather than Scleroglossa is the proper sister taxon of Iguania.
The oldest widely accepted member of Anguimorpha is Dorsetisaurus from the Late Jurassic of Europe and North America. [2] In 2022, the genus Cryptovaranoides was described from the latest Triassic of England.
Myrmecodaptria (meaning "ant eater" in Greek) is an extinct genus of scleroglossan lizard from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation in Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia.The type and only species, Myrmecodaptria microphagosa (microphagosa meaning "eating little" in Greek), was named in 2000 by paleontologists Gao Keqin and Mark Norell.
Anole Lizards: Scientific Name Common Name Distribution Status Anolis binotatus: Two-marked Anole: Pacific lowlands: Anolis radulinus-Northwest Colombia (Truando River, Chocó)
Bicuspidon is an extinct genus of polyglyphanodont lizard known from the Late Cretaceous of North America, Europe and Africa, two species, B. numerosus [1] and B. smikros [2] are known from the Cenomanian of Utah in the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation and the Naturita Formation respectively.
The earliest known Glyptosaurines like Odaxosaurus are known from the Late Cretaceous of North America.They arrived in Europe at the beginning of the Eocene ().Only a single species, Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis dating to the Mid-Eocene, is known from Asia.