Isodontosaurus

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Isodontosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Clade: Gobiguania
Genus: Isodontosaurus
Gilmore, 1943
Type species
Isodontosaurus gracilis
Gilmore, 1943

Isodontosaurus is an extinct genus of iguanian lizard from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. The type species is Isodontosaurus gracilis. Isodontosaurus is part of an extinct group of Late Cretaceous iguanians called Gobiguania, which is currently thought to be endemic to Mongolia.[1]

References

  1. Daza, J. D.; Abdala, V.; Arias, J. S.; García-López, D.; Ortiz, P. (2012). "Cladistic Analysis of Iguania and a Fossil Lizard from the Late Pliocene of Northwestern Argentina". Journal of Herpetology 46: 104. doi:10.1670/10-112. 

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