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Gilmoreteius ✝

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Gilmoreteius is an extinct genus of lizard from the Late Cretaceous period in Mongolia.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilmoreteius, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4820663	https://www.gbif.org/species/4820663
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	197020	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=197020

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Polyglyphanodontidae : Gilmoreteius

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
-	Episquamata	Pyron et al. 2013
-	Toxicofera	Vidal and Hedges 2005
-	Polyglyphanodontia	Alifanov 2000
family	Polyglyphanodontidae	Gilmore 1942
genus	Gilmoreteius	Langer 1998

Scientific Name

Gilmoreteius Langer, 1998

Name Published In

Comun Mus Cienc Tecnol PUCRS Ser Zool 11, outubro

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Gilmoreteius	genus	belongs to Gilmoreteiidae	stated with evidence	Langer, 1998
Gilmoreteius	genus	belongs to Polyglyphanodontinae	stated with evidence	Xu et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. Langer. 1998. Gilmoreteiidae new family and Gilmoreteius new genus (Squamata, Scincomorpha): replacement names for Macrocephalosauridae Sulimski, 1975 and Macrocephalosaurus Gilmore, 1943. Comunicações do Museu Ciências e Tecnologia da PUCRS, Série Zoologia 11:13-18

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilmoreteius

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Macrocephalosaurus chulsanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Macrocephalosaurus ferrugenous ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Macrocephalosaurus gilmorei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Macrocephalosaurus sulimskii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1943	Macrocephalosaurus Gilmore p. 362 fig. 1â€“2
1975	Macrocephalosaurus Sulimski p. 28
1983	Macrocephalosaurus Estes
1988	Macrocephalosaurus Carroll
1991	Macrocephalosaurus Gao and Fox
1993	Macrocephalosaurus Alifanov p. 10

Year	Name and Author
1998	Gilmoreteius Langer p. 16
2000	Macrocephalosaurus Alifanov p. 373
2000	Macrocephalosaurus Gao and Norell p. 70
2011	Macrocephalosaurus Benson p. 289 fig. 3
2014	Gilmoreteius Xu et al.

References

Langer M. C. (1998) Gilmoreteiidae new family and Gilmoreteius new genus (Squamata, Scincomorpha): replacement names for Macrocephalosauridae Sulimski, 1975 and Macrocephalosaurus Gilmore, 1943, Comunicações do Museu Ciências e Tecnologia da PUCRS, Série Zoologia 11, 13-18

Gilmore C. W. (1943) Fossil lizards of Mongolia, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 81 4, 361-384

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

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

Alifanov V. (1993) Some peculiarities of the Cretaceous and Palaeogene lizard faunas of the Mongolian people's Republic, Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 3, 9-13

Alifanov V. R. (2000) The fossil record of Cretaceous lizards from Mongolia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 368-389

Gao K., Norell M. A. (2000) Taxonomic composition and systematics of Late Cretaceous lizard assemblages from Ukhaa Tolgod and adjacent localities, Mongolian Gobi Desert, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 249, 1-118

Xu L., Wu X., et al (2014) A new lizard (Lepidosauria: Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Henan, China, Acta Geologica Sinica 88, 1041-1050

Comun Mus Cienc Tecnol PUCRS Ser Zool 11, outubro - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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