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| Rank | suborder (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Anguimorpha |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Anguimorpha | infraorder | belongs to Squamata | stated without evidence | McDowell and Bogert, 1954 | | Anguimorpha | infraorder | belongs to Sauria | stated without evidence | Antunes, 1964 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Sauria | stated with evidence | Estes, 1964 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Sauria | stated without evidence | Estes and Berberian, 1970 | | Anguimorpha | infraorder | belongs to Lacertilia | stated without evidence | Seiffert, 1975 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Sauria | stated without evidence | Sahni and Srivastava, 1976 | | Anguimorpha | infraorder | belongs to Lacertilia | stated with evidence | Estes, 1983 | | Anguimorpha | infraorder | belongs to Lacertilia | stated without evidence | Stritzke, 1983 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Sauria | stated without evidence | Borsuk-Bialynicka, 1984 | | Anguimorpha | infraorder | belongs to Lacertilia | stated without evidence | Sullivan, 1986 | | Anguimorpha | unranked clade | belongs to Autarchoglossa | stated with evidence | Estes et al., 1988 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Squamata | stated without evidence | Evans, 1994 | | Anguimorpha | infraorder | belongs to Lacertilia | stated without evidence | Gao and Fox, 1996 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Scincogekkonomorpha | stated without evidence | Gao and Norell, 1998 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Squamata | stated without evidence | Gao and Nessov, 1998 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Scleroglossa | stated with evidence | Lee and Caldwell, 2000 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Squamata | stated without evidence | Nydam, 2000 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Lacertilia | stated without evidence | Peng et al., 2001 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Scleroglossa | stated with evidence | Evans and Wang, 2005 | | Anguimorpha | unranked clade | belongs to Autarchoglossa | stated without evidence | Smith, 2006 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Squamata | implied | Böhme, 2010 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Toxicofera | stated with evidence | Pyron et al., 2013 | | Anguimorpha | unranked clade | belongs to Squamata | implied | Cernansky et al., 2015 | | Anguimorpha | suborder | belongs to Squamata | stated without evidence | Stocker and Kirk, 2016 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 321 |
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| Extant Size (PBDB) | 107 (33%) |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 168 - 165 Ma
Middle Jurassic |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Diapsida) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. Seiffert. 1975. Upper Jurassic lizards from central Portugal. Contribuição para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimerridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22:7-85 |
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| Seiffert J. (1975) Upper Jurassic lizards from central Portugal, Contribuição para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimerridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22, 7-85 |
| McDowell S. B., Bogert C. M. (1954) The systematic postition of Lanthanotus and the affinities of the anguinomorphan lizards, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 105 1, 1-142 |
| Antunes M. T. (1964) O Neocretacio e o Cenozoico do litoral de Angola, Junta de Investigcoes do Ultramar, 1-254 |
| Estes R. (1964) Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49, 1-187 |
| Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154 |
| Estes R., Berberian P. (1970) Paleoecology of a Late Cretaceous vertebrate community from Montana, Breviora 343, 1-35 |
| Sahni A., Srivastava V.C. (1976) Eocene rodents and associated reptiles from the Subathu Formation of northwestern India, Journal of Paleontology 50 5, 922-928 |
| Estes R. (1983) Sauria terrestria, Amphisbaenia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 10A, 1-249 |
| Stritzke R. (1983) Saniwa feisti n. sp., ein Varanide (Lacertilia, Reptilia) aus dem Mittel-Eozän von Messel bei Darmstadt, Senckenbergiana Lethaea 64 5/6, 497-508 |
| Borsuk-Bialynicka M. (1984) Anguimorphans and related lizards from the Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, Palaeontologia Polonica 46, 5-105 |
| Sullivan R. M. (1986) A new fossil anguid lizard Parodaxosaurus sanjuanensis, new genus, new species from the middle Paleocene (Torrejonian) Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Journal of Herpetology 20 1, 109-111 |
| Sullivan R. M. (1987) Parophisaurus pawneensis (Gilmore, 1928) new genus of anguid lizard from the middle Oligocene of North America, Journal of Herpetology 21 2, 115-133 |
| Estes R., de Queiroz K., et al (1988) Phylogenetic relationships within Squamata, Phylogenetic relationships of the lizard families, 119-282 |
| Evans S. E. (1994) A new anguimorph lizard from the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of England, Palaeontology 37 1, 33-49 |
| Gao K. -Q., Fox R. C. (1996) Taxonomy and evolution of Late Cretaceous lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from western Canada, Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of natural History 33, 1-107 |
| Gao K. -Q., Hou L. -H. (1996) Systematics and taxonomic diversity of squamates from the Upper Cretaceous Djadochta Formation, Bayan Mandahu, Gobi Desert, People's Republic of China, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33, 578-598 |
| Gao K. -Q., Nessov L. A. (1998) Early Cretaceous squamates from the Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 207 3, 289-309 |
| Gao K. -Q., Norell M. A. (1998) Taxonomic revision of Carusia (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert and phylogenetic relationships of anguimorphan lizards, American Museum Novitates 3230, 1-51 |
| Lee M. S. Y., Caldwell M. W. (2000) Adriosaurus and the affinities of mosasaurs, dolichosaurs, and snakes, Journal of Paleontology 74 3, 915-937 |
| Nydam R. L. (2000) A new taxon of helodermatid-like lizard from the Albian-Cenomanian of Utah, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 2, 285-294 |
| Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54 |
| Evans S. E., Wang Y. (2005) The Early Cretaceous lizard Dalinghosaurus from China, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50 4, 725-742 |
| Smith K. T. (2006) A diverse new assemblage of late Eocene squamates (Reptilia) from the Chadron Formation of North Dakota, U.S.A., Palaeontologia Electronica 9 2, 1-44 |
| Böhme M. (2010) Ectothermic vertebrates (Actinopterygii, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (Germany, Bavaria) and their implications for environment reconstruction and palaeoclimate, Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84 1, 3-41 doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0050-4 |
| Pyron R. A., Burbrink F. T., et al (2013) A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes, BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 1, 1-53 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 |
| Cernansky A., Rage J. C., et al (2015) The Early Miocene squamates of Amöneburg (Germany): the first stages of modern squamates in Europe, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13 2, 97-128 doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.897266 |
| Stocker M. R., Kirk E. C. (2016) The first amphisbaenians from Texas, with notes on other squamates from the middle Eocene Purple Bench locality, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1094081, 1-15 doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1094081 |
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