Marmoretta

Marmoretta
Temporal range: Middle-Late Jurassic Bathonian–Kimmeridgian
Skull of Marmoretta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Lepidosauromorpha
Genus: Marmoretta
Evans, 1991
Type species
Marmoretta oxoniensis
Evans, 1991

Marmoretta is an extinct genus of small lepidosauromorph reptile known from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Britain, as well as the Late Jurassic of Portugal. It contains a single species, Marmoretta oxoniensis.[1][2]

  1. ^ Evans, S. E. (1991). "A new lizard-like reptile (Diapsida: Lepidosauromorpha) from the Middle Jurassic of England". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 103 (4): 391–412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1991.tb00910.x.
  2. ^ Waldman, M.; Evans, S. E. (1994). "Lepidosauromorph reptiles from the Middle Jurassic of Skye". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 112 (1–2): 135–150. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1994.tb00315.x.