Pristiguana
| Pristiguana Temporal range: 100–65 Ma Upper Cretaceous | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Iguanidae |
| Genus: | Pristiguana |
| Species: | P. brasiliensis |
Pristiguana brasiliensis is an extinct species of primitive iguanid from the Upper Cretaceous.
It has been found in the Bauru Group of Brazil. Its discoverers said, in 1973, that is the oldest fossil referable to the family Iguanidae. It resembles living primitive South American iguanids in "some features". It shows "similarity" to members of the related family Teiidae.
See also
References
- Richard Estes and Llewellyn I. Price, Iguanid Lizard from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil, Science, 18 May 1973, vol. 180. no. 4087, pp. 748 – 751 abstract
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