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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Teiidae : Leptochamops |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Chamopsiidae : Leptochamops |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Leptochamops Estes, 1964 |
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| Name Published In | Univ. Calif. Publs Geol. Sci. 49 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Teiidae | stated with evidence | Estes, 1964 | | Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Teiidae | stated without evidence | Estes and Berberian, 1970 | | Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Teiini | stated with evidence | Estes, 1983 | | Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Teiidae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Teiidae | stated with evidence | Gao and Fox, 1991 | | Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Chamopsiinae | stated with evidence | Denton and O'Neill, 1995 | | Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Teiidae | stated with evidence | Gao and Fox, 1996 | | Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Teiidae | stated without evidence | Peng et al., 2001 | | Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Scincomorpha | stated without evidence | Nydam and Voci, 2007 | | Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Chamopsiidae | stated without evidence | Nydam et al., 2010 | | Leptochamops | genus | belongs to Chamopsiidae | stated with evidence | Longrich et al., 2012 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 3 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 89.8 - 83.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Diapsida) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | R. Estes. 1964. Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49:1-187 |
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| Estes R. (1964) Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49, 1-187 |
| Estes R., Berberian P. (1970) Paleoecology of a Late Cretaceous vertebrate community from Montana, Breviora 343, 1-35 |
| Estes R. (1983) Sauria terrestria, Amphisbaenia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 10A, 1-249 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Bryant L. J. (1989) Non-dinosaurian lower vertebrates across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 134, 1-107 |
| 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 |
| Denton R. K., O'Neill R. C. (1995) Prototeius stageri, gen. et sp. nov., a new teiid lizard from the Upper Cretaceous Marshalltown Formation of New Jersey, with a preliminary phylogenetic revision of the Teiidae, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15 2, 235-253 |
| 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 |
| 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., Voci G. E. (2007) Teiid-like scincomorphan lizards from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of southern Utah, Journal of Herpetology 41 2, 211-219 |
| Nydam R. L., Caldwell M. W., et al (2010) Borioteiioidean lizard skulls from Kleskun Hil (Wapiti Formation; upper Campanian), west-central Alberta, Canada, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 4, 1090-1099 |
| Longrich N. R., Bhullar B.-A. S., et al (2012) Mass extinction of lizards and snakes at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 52, 21396-21401 doi:10.1073/pnas.1211526110 |
| GBIF/Paleo Database - 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 |
| Univ. Calif. Publs Geol. Sci. 49 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Leptochamops ✝
