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Scincomorpha

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	57293	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=57293

Rank

infraorder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Scincomorpha

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Lepidosauromorpha
superorder	Lepidosauria
order	Squamata	Oppel 1811
suborder	Lacertilia
infraorder	Scincomorpha	Camp 1923

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Autarchoglossa	stated with evidence	Camp, 1923
Scincomorpha	suborder	belongs to Sauria	stated with evidence	Estes, 1964
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Sauria	stated without evidence	Estes, 1969
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Lacertilia	stated without evidence	Seiffert, 1975
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Sauria	stated without evidence	Sulimski, 1975
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Lacertilia	stated with evidence	Estes, 1983
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Sauria	stated without evidence	Sulimski, 1984
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Autarchoglossa	stated without evidence	Sullivan, 1991
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Lacertilia	stated without evidence	Gao and Fox, 1991
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Lacertilia	stated with evidence	Gao and Fox, 1996
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Squamata	stated without evidence	Sullivan and Estes, 1997
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Squamata	stated without evidence	Evans and Chure, 1998
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Lacertilia	stated without evidence	Peng et al., 2001
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Squamata	stated without evidence	Nydam, 2002
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Scleroglossa	stated without evidence	Krause et al., 2003
Scincomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Autarchoglossa	stated without evidence	Smith, 2006
Scincomorpha	unranked clade	belongs to Lacertilia	implied	Augé and Rage, 2006
Scincomorpha	unranked clade	belongs to Scleroglossa	stated without evidence	Fernicola and Albino, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (5.6%)

First Recorded Appearance

168 - 166 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. L. Camp. 1923. Classification of the lizards. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 48:289-481

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cordyloidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Carusiidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Chalcidae family	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Contogeniidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gilmoreteiidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Globauridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	63.3 Ma Paleocene
Sepsidae family	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Slavoiidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Apsgnathus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Balnealacerta ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Becklesisaurus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Bellairsia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Bothriagenys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Calanguban ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Chromatogenys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hugueneysaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	28.4 Ma Oligocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Kleskunsaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lonchisaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Monocnemodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Borioteiioidea unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	130	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	56.8 Ma Paleocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1871	Leptoglossa Cope p. 237
1875	Leptoglossa Cope p. 19
1923	Scincomorpha Camp
1964	Scincomorpha Estes p. 101
1966	Scincomorpha Kuhn p. 50
1969	Scincomorpha Estes p. 2
1970	Scincomorpha Estes and Berberian p. 5
1975	Scincomorpha Seiffert p. 10
1975	Scincomorpha Sulimski p. 28
1983	Scincomorpha Estes
1984	Scincomorpha Sulimski p. 144
1988	Leptoglossa Carroll
1991	Scincomorpha Gao and Fox

Year	Name and Author
1991	Scincomorpha Sullivan p. 296
1996	Scincomorpha Gao and Fox p. 18
1996	Scincomorpha Gao and Hou p. 584
1997	Scincomorpha Sullivan and Estes p. 102
1998	Scincomorpha Evans and Chure
1998	Scincomorpha Gao and Nessov
2001	Scincomorpha Peng et al. p. 27
2002	Scincomorpha Nydam p. 646
2003	Scincomorpha Krause et al. p. 843
2006	Scincomorpha Augé and Rage p. 239
2006	Scincomorpha Smith p. 5
2012	Scincomorpha Fernicola and Albino

References

Camp C. L. (1923) Classification of the lizards, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 48, 289-481

Cope E. D. On the homologies of some of the cranial bones of the Reptilia, and on the systematic arrangement of the class, Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 19, 194-247

Cope E. D. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia; with a systematic list of the higher groups, and an essay on geographical distribution. Based on the specimens contained in the U. S. National Museum, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 1, 1-109

Estes R. (1964) Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49, 1-187

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Estes R. (1969) Relationships of two Cretaceous lizards (Sauria, Teiidae), Breviora 317, 1-8

Estes R., Berberian P. (1970) Paleoecology of a Late Cretaceous vertebrate community from Montana, Breviora 343, 1-35

Seiffert J. (1975) Upper Jurassic lizards from central Portugal, Contribuição para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimerridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22, 7-85

Sulimski A. (1975) Macrocephalosauridae and Polyglyphanodontidae (Sauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, Palaeontologia Polonica 33, 25-102

Estes R. (1983) Sauria terrestria, Amphisbaenia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 10A, 1-249

Sulimski A. (1984) A new Cretaceous scincomorph lizard from Mongolia, Palaeontologia Polonica 46, 143-155

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Gao K. -Q., Fox R. C. (1991) New teiid lizards from the Upper Cretaceous Oldman Formation (Judithian) of southeastern Alberta, Canada, with a review of the Cretaceous record of teiids, Annals of Carnegie Museum 60 2, 145-162

Sullivan R. M. (1991) Paleocene Caudata and Squamata from Gidley and Silberling quarries, Montana, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11 3, 293-301

Gao K. -Q., Fox R. C. (1996) Taxonomy and evolution of Late Cretaceous lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from western Canada, Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of natural History 33, 1-107

Gao K. -Q., Hou L. -H. (1996) Systematics and taxonomic diversity of squamates from the Upper Cretaceous Djadochta Formation, Bayan Mandahu, Gobi Desert, People's Republic of China, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33, 578-598

Sullivan R. M., Estes R. (1997) A reassessment of the fossil Tupinambinae, Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics; the Miocene fauna of La Venta, Columbia

Evans S. E., Chure D. C. (1998) Paramacellodid lizard skulls from the Jurassic Morrison Formation at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 1, 99-114

Gao K. -Q., Nessov L. A. (1998) Early Cretaceous squamates from the Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 207 3, 289-309

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

Nydam R. L. (2002) Lizards of the Mussentuchit Local Fauna (Albian-Cenomanian boundary) and comments on the evolution of the Cretaceous lizard fauna of North America, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 3, 645-660

Krause D. W., Evans S. E., et al (2003) First definitive record of Mesozoic lizards from Madagascar, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 4, 842-856

Augé M., Rage J.-C. (2006) Herpetofaunas from the Upper Paleocene and Lower Eocene of Morocco, Annales de Paléontologie 92 3, 235-253 doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2005.09.001

Smith K. T. (2006) A diverse new assemblage of late Eocene squamates (Reptilia) from the Chadron Formation of North Dakota, U.S.A., Palaeontologia Electronica 9 2, 1-44

Fernicola J. C., Albino A. (2012) Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina: paleoenvironmental and paleobiological considerations, Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation, 129-137

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