Category
page 1Miocene lepidosaurs
Peltosaurus
Peltosaurus is an extinct genus of anguid lizard from North America that lived from the Eocene to the Miocene. Peltosaurus belongs to the anguid subfamily Glyptosaurinae. The type species Peltosaurus granulosus was named in 1873 by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope. Many additional species have been named, but most have been reassigned to different genera. For example, Peltosaurus piger, named in 1928, was reclassified as Odaxosaurus piger, and P. jepseni, named in 1942 from the Paleocene of Wyoming, but was later reclassified as Proxestops jepseni. In 1955 a new species, Peltosaurus
Chamaeleo caroliquarti
species of reptile (fossil)
Python europaeus
species of reptile
Yurlunggur camfieldensis
Yurlunggur is a genus of fossil snake in the extinct family Madtsoiidae containing the species Yurlunggur camfieldensis known from the Oligocene and Miocene of Australia.