Gobekko

Gobekko
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 75 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Infraorder: Gekkota
Genus: Gobegekko
Borsuk-Białynicka, 1990
Type species
Gobekko cretacicus
Borsuk-Białynicka, 1990

Gobekko is an extinct genus of gecko or gecko-like lizard from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Gobekko is either a basal member of Gekkota, the group that includes geckos and the legless pygopodid lizards, or a stem-gekkotan outside Gekkota but within the larger group Gekkonomorpha. It is the fourth oldest known member of Gekkonomorpha after Hoburogekko, a gecko from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia, AMNH FR21444, an unnamed specimen also from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia, and Cretaceogekko, a gecko preserved in amber from the Early Cretaceous of Burma.[1]

References

  1. Daza, J. D.; Bauer, A. M.; Snively, E. (2013). "Gobekko cretacicus (Reptilia: Squamata) and its bearing on the interpretation of gekkotan affinities". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167 (3): 430. doi:10.1111/zoj.12012.


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