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Round Island Burrowing Boa
species of reptile
Tupuxuara
Tupuxuara is a genus of thalassodromid pterosaur that lived during the Albian age of the Early Cretaceous, about 112 million years ago. Its remains were found in what is now the Romualdo Formation of the Santana Group in Brazil. Tupuxuara was named in 1988 by paleontologists Alexander Kellner and Diógenes de Almeida Campos. The name Tupuxuara means "familiar spirit" referring to a familiar spirit in the mythology of the Tupi people in Brazil. Two species have been named, T. longicristatus, the type species, and T. leonardii. An additional species has been named in 2009, T. deliradamus. However
Rodrigues Giant Day Gecko
species of reptile
Mauritian giant skink
species of reptile
Thalattoarchon
Thalattoarchon is a genus of large, Middle Triassic predatory ichthyosaur from North America, containing the single species T. saurophagis. The taxon was described in 2013 from a single partial skeleton discovered in Nevada. The generic name, meaning "ruler of the seas", refers to its status as an apex predator, while the specific epithet, meaning "lizard eater", alludes to its carnivorous diet. As an ichthyosaur, Thalattoarchon had flippers for limbs and a fin on the tail. It is a large ichthyosaur, with an estimated length between . The animal has a long, slender body but with a proportional
Centrochelys burchardi
extinct species of tortoise
Martinique Curly-tailed Lizard
species of reptile
Navassa Curly-tailed Lizard
species of reptile
Pholidoscelis major
species of reptile
Eastwood's Long-tailed Seps
species of reptile
Toretocnemus
Toretocnemus (meaning 'perforated tibia') is an extinct genus of ichthyosaurs that lived during the Carnian stage of the Upper Triassic in what is now North America. Two species are known, T. californicus and T. zitelli, first described in 1903 by John Campbell Merriam from fossils discovered in the Hosselkus Limestone, Shasta County. The second species was first seen by Merriam as belonging to a distinct genus, but in 1999 it was reclassified into the original taxon. Toretocnemus fossils are primarily known from California, although some specimens are also reported from Alaska and Mexico. Wit
Nycteroleteridae
Nycteroleteridae is a family of procolophonian parareptilians (extinct early reptiles) from the Middle to Late Permian of Russia and North America. They are sometimes classified as a sister group to pareiasaurids (but see Classification). The group includes the genera Macroleter, Bashkyroleter, "Bashkyroleter" mesensis, Nycteroleter, Emeroleter, and probably Rhipaeosaurus. They were carnivorous, and occasionally ate insects. The group was most common in European Russia, with only a few fossils in North America. One fossil has also been found in Africa, but this is the only one from Gondwana.
Underwood's mussurana
extinct species of snake formerly endemic to the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia
Ratas Island Lizard
subspecies of reptile
Centrochelys vulcanica
extinct species of tortoise
Pterosphenus
alt=Drawing of multiple views of a vertebra, very high and laterally compressed, of the fossil sea snake Pterosphenus schucherti, from the original description of the species (Lucas, 1898).|left|thumb|The very high and narrow vertebra of Pterosphenus schucherti hint at the highly specialised aquatic lifestyle of the genus. Pterosphenus is an extinct genus of marine snake of the Eocene period.
Beesiiwo
Beesiiwo (meaning "big lizard") is a genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from the Late Triassic Popo Agie Formation in Western Wyoming. The type and only species is B. cooowuse, known from four specimens consisting of left and right maxilla fragments, and a left dentary fragment.
Roque Chico de Salmor giant lizard
subspecies of reptile