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Paraglyphanodon ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4818635	https://www.gbif.org/species/4818635
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37942	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37942

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Polyglyphanodontidae : Paraglyphanodon

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Lepidosauromorpha
superorder	Lepidosauria
order	Squamata	Oppel 1811
-	Episquamata	Pyron et al. 2013
-	Toxicofera	Vidal and Hedges 2005
-	Polyglyphanodontia	Alifanov 2000
family	Polyglyphanodontidae	Gilmore 1942
genus	Paraglyphanodon	Gilmore 1940

Scientific Name

Paraglyphanodon Gilmore, 1940

Name Published In

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 99 (16)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Paraglyphanodon	genus	belongs to Sauria	stated without evidence	Gilmore, 1940
Paraglyphanodon	genus	belongs to Polyglyphanodontidae	stated without evidence	Gilmore, 1943
Paraglyphanodon	genus	belongs to Polyglyphanodontinae	stated with evidence	Estes, 1983
Paraglyphanodon	genus	belongs to Teiidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Paraglyphanodon	genus	belongs to Teiidae	stated without evidence	Gao and Fox, 1991

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. W. Gilmore. 1940. New fossil lizards from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 99(16):1-3

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Paraglyphanodon gazini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Paraglyphanodon utahensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1940	Paraglyphanodon Gilmore p. 3 fig. 2
1943	Paraglyphanodon Gilmore p. 209
1975	Paraglyphanodon Sulimski p. 78
1983	Paraglyphanodon Estes
1988	Paraglyphanodon Carroll
1991	Paraglyphanodon Gao and Fox

References

Gilmore C. W. (1940) New fossil lizards from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 99 16, 1-3

Gilmore C. W. (1943) Osteology of Upper Cretaceous lizards from Utah, with a description of a new species, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 93 3163, 209-214

Sulimski A. (1975) Macrocephalosauridae and Polyglyphanodontidae (Sauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, Palaeontologia Polonica 33, 25-102

Estes R. (1983) Sauria terrestria, Amphisbaenia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 10A, 1-249

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Gao K. -Q., Fox R. C. (1991) New teiid lizards from the Upper Cretaceous Oldman Formation (Judithian) of southeastern Alberta, Canada, with a review of the Cretaceous record of teiids, Annals of Carnegie Museum 60 2, 145-162

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Smithson. Misc. Coll., 99 (16) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

original publication/web search (AJR). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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