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Cherminsaurus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4820553	https://www.gbif.org/species/4820553
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37932	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37932

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Polyglyphanodontidae : Cherminsaurus

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	Cherminsaurus	Sulimski 1975

Scientific Name

Cherminsaurus Sulimski, 1975

Name Published In

Palaeont. Pol. No. 33

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cherminsaurus	genus	belongs to Polyglyphanodontidae	stated without evidence	Sulimski, 1975
Cherminsaurus	genus	belongs to Polyglyphanodontinae	stated with evidence	Estes, 1983
Cherminsaurus	genus	belongs to Teiidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Cherminsaurus	genus	belongs to Teiidae	stated without evidence	Gao and Fox, 1991
Cherminsaurus	genus	belongs to Polyglyphanodontinae	stated without evidence	McCord, 1998
Cherminsaurus	genus	belongs to Cherminsauridae	stated with evidence	Alifanov, 2000
Cherminsaurus	genus	belongs to Macrocephalosauridae	stated without evidence	Alifanov, 2000
Cherminsaurus	genus	belongs to Polyglyphanodontinae	stated without evidence	Gao and Norell, 2000
Cherminsaurus	genus	belongs to Polyglyphanodontinae	stated with evidence	Xu et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cherminsaurus kozlowskii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Cherminsaurus tereschenkoi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1975	Cherminsaurus Sulimski p. 81 figs. 13-14
1983	Cherminsaurus Estes
1988	Cherminsaurus Carroll
1991	Cherminsaurus Gao and Fox
1993	Cherminsaurus Alifanov p. 10
1998	Cherminsaurus McCord p. 289 fig. 3
2000	Cherminsaurus Alifanov
2000	Cherminsaurus Gao and Norell p. 73
2014	Cherminsaurus Xu et al.

References

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

Alifanov V. (1993) Some peculiarities of the Cretaceous and Palaeogene lizard faunas of the Mongolian people's Republic, Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 3, 9-13

McCord R. D. (1998) A new genus and species of Cretaceous polyglyphanodontine lizard (Squamata, Teiidae) from the Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah, In Y. Tomida, L. J. Flynn, & L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Advances in Vertebrate Paleontology and Geochronology. National Science Museum Monographs 14, 281-292

Alifanov V. R. (2000) Macrocephalosaurs and the early evolution of lizards of Central Asia, Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 272

Gao K., Norell M. A. (2000) Taxonomic composition and systematics of Late Cretaceous lizard assemblages from Ukhaa Tolgod and adjacent localities, Mongolian Gobi Desert, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 249, 1-118

Xu L., Wu X., et al (2014) A new lizard (Lepidosauria: Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Henan, China, Acta Geologica Sinica 88, 1041-1050

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

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Palaeont. Pol. No. 33 - 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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