Meyasaurus

Meyasaurus
Temporal range: Barremian 130–125 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Teiidae
Genus: †Meyasaurus
Vidal, 1915
Type species
Meyasaurus faurai
Vidal, 1915
Species
List of species
  • M. faurai
    Vidal, 1915
  • M. crusafonti
    Hoffstetter, 1966
  • M. unaensis
    Richter, 1994
  • M. diazromerali
    Evans and Barbadillo, 1997
Synonyms

Ilerdaesaurus Hoffstetter, 1966 Rubiessaurus Gomez Pallerola, 1979

Meyasaurus is an extinct genus of Teiid lizard known from the Barremian of Spain and the Isle of Wight, UK. Four species are known from Spain, from the La Huérguina, Camarillas, and La Pedrera de Rúbies Formations while an indeterminate taxon is known from the Wessex Formation of Isle of Wight.[1] [2] It is a possible close relative of Barbatteius[3] and other members of Barbatteiidae.[4]

  1. ^ English Wealden fossils. Batten, D. J. London: Palaeontological Association. 2011. ISBN 9781444367119. OCLC 777385514.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ Evans, Ssuan; Barbadillo, Javier (1997). "Early Cretaceous lizards from Las Hoyas, Spain". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 119 (1): 23–49. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb00134.x.
  3. ^ Venczel, Márton; Codrea, Vlad A. (2015). "A new teiid lizard from the Late Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, Romania and its phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical relationships". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14 (3): 219–237. doi:10.1080/14772019.2015.1025869. ISSN 1477-2019.
  4. ^ Codrea, Vlad A.; Venczel, Márton; Solomon, Alexandru (2017). "A new family of teiioid lizards from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania with notes on the evolutionary history of early teiioids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx008. ISSN 0024-4082.