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Palaeovaranus Zittel 1887
Authors/Creators
- 1. Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006 Zurich (Switzerland) and Department of Ecology, Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, 84215 Bratislava (Slovakia) and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125 Turin (Italy)
- 2. Department of Ecology, Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, 84215 Bratislava (Slovakia)
Description
Genus Palaeovaranus Zittel, 1887 -1890
TYPE SPECIES. — Palaeovaranus cayluxi Zittel, 1887 -1890 (type species by subsequent designation; Georgalis 2017).
EMENDED GENERIC DIAGNOSIS. — 1) Presence of a distinctly developed nasal crest on the dorsomedial surface of the nasal process of maxilla; and 2) the dorsolateral crests on the dorsal surface of the parietal meeting in the median plane to form a median crest in adult specimens.
Notes
Published as part of Georgalis, Georgios L., Čerňanský, Andrej & Klembara, Jozef, 2021, Osteological atlas of new lizards from the Phosphorites du Quercy (France), based on historical, forgotten, fossil material, pp. 219-293 in Geodiversitas 43 (9) on page 251, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a9, http://zenodo.org/record/4720776
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- SPECIES
- Scientific name authorship
- Zittel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Genus
- Palaeovaranus
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- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Palaeovaranus Zittel, 1887 sec. Georgalis, Čerňanský & Klembara, 2021
References
- ZITTEL K. A. 1887 - 1890. - Handbuch der Palaontologie. Palaeozoologie. III. Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves. Druck und Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, Munchen, Leipzig, 900 p. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 40393265