Calanguban
Name:
Calanguban.
Phonetic: Cah-lang-u-ban.
Named By: Tiago R. Simões, Michael W.
Caldwell & Alexander W. A. Kellner - 2014.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Squamata.
Species: C. alamoi (type).
Diet: Insectivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Brazil - Crato Formation.
Time period: Albian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial skeleton lacking the tail, and parts of the limbs.
Calanguban is a genus of lizard that lived in Brazil during the early Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A new Early Cretaceous lizard species from Brazil, and the
phylogenetic position of the oldest known South American squamates.
- Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13 (7): 601. -
Tiago R. Simões, Michael W. Caldwell & Alexander W.
A. Kellner - 2014.
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