A New Eocene Casquehead Lizard (Reptilia, Corytophanidae) from North America

A new fossil showing affinities with extant Laemanctus offers the first clear evidence for a casquehead lizard (Corytophanidae) from the Eocene of North America. Along with Geiseltaliellus from roughly coeval rocks in central Europe, the new find further documents the tropical fauna present during g...

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Autor principal: Conrad, Jack L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4489568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26131767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127900
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description A new fossil showing affinities with extant Laemanctus offers the first clear evidence for a casquehead lizard (Corytophanidae) from the Eocene of North America. Along with Geiseltaliellus from roughly coeval rocks in central Europe, the new find further documents the tropical fauna present during greenhouse conditions in the northern mid-latitudes approximately 50 million years ago (Ma). Modern Corytophanidae is a neotropical clade of iguanian lizards ranging from southern Mexico to northern South America.
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spelling pubmed-44895682015-07-14 A New Eocene Casquehead Lizard (Reptilia, Corytophanidae) from North America Conrad, Jack L. PLoS One Research Article A new fossil showing affinities with extant Laemanctus offers the first clear evidence for a casquehead lizard (Corytophanidae) from the Eocene of North America. Along with Geiseltaliellus from roughly coeval rocks in central Europe, the new find further documents the tropical fauna present during greenhouse conditions in the northern mid-latitudes approximately 50 million years ago (Ma). Modern Corytophanidae is a neotropical clade of iguanian lizards ranging from southern Mexico to northern South America. Public Library of Science 2015-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4489568/ /pubmed/26131767 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127900 Text en © 2015 Jack L. Conrad http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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A New Eocene Casquehead Lizard (Reptilia, Corytophanidae) from North America
title A New Eocene Casquehead Lizard (Reptilia, Corytophanidae) from North America
title_full A New Eocene Casquehead Lizard (Reptilia, Corytophanidae) from North America
title_fullStr A New Eocene Casquehead Lizard (Reptilia, Corytophanidae) from North America
title_full_unstemmed A New Eocene Casquehead Lizard (Reptilia, Corytophanidae) from North America
title_short A New Eocene Casquehead Lizard (Reptilia, Corytophanidae) from North America
title_sort new eocene casquehead lizard (reptilia, corytophanidae) from north america
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4489568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26131767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127900
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