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ArticleRoyal Society open science2020

Unusual lizard fossil from the Miocene of Nebraska and a minimum age for cnemidophorine teiids.

Simon G Scarpetta

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Simon G ScarpettaDepartment of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0976-9337

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Teiid lizards are well represented in the fossil record and are common components of modern ecosystems in North and South America. Many fossils were referred to the cnemidophorine teiid group (whiptails, racerunners and relatives), particularly from North America. However, systematic interpretations of morphological features in cnemidophorines were hampered by the historically problematic taxonomy of the clade, and the biogeography and chronology of cnemidophorine evolution in North America is poorly understood from the fossil record. Few fossil cnemidophorines were identified with an apomorphy-based diagnosis, and there are almost no fossil cnemidophorines that could be used to anchor node calibrations. Here, I describe a cnemidophorine from the Miocene Ogallala Group of Nebraska and diagnose the fossil using apomorphies. In that process, I clarify the systematic utility of several morphological features of cnemidophorine lizards. I refer the fossil to the least inclusive clade containing

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apomorphiesbiogeographydivergence timefossilsMioceneTeiidae

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