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Gerrhosauridae

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Description

The Gerrhosauridae are a family of lizards native to Africa and Madagascar.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	5667	https://www.gbif.org/species/5667
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	158509	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=158509

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Gerrhosauridae

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
superfamily	Scincoidea	Oppel 1811
family	Gerrhosauridae	Boulenger 1885

Common Name

plated lizard

Scientific Name

Gerrhosauridae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Gerrhosauridae	family	belongs to Lacertae	stated with evidence	Gadow, 1898
Gerrhosauridae	family	belongs to Lacertoidea	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1946
Gerrhosauridae	family	belongs to Cordyloidea	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Gerrhosauridae	family	belongs to Squamata	stated without evidence	Burney et al., 2008
Gerrhosauridae	family	belongs to Scincoidea	stated with evidence	Pyron et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. A. Burney, N. Vasey, and L. R. Godfrey, Ramilisonina, W. L. Jungers, M. Ramarolahy, L. Raharivony. 2008. New findings at Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 70(1):13-24

Common Name(s)

Plated Lizard, Plated Lizards

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Broadleysaurus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cordylosaurus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gerrhosaurus genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Gerrhosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Matobosaurus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tetradactylus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tracheloptychus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zonosaurus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Zonosaur	1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1885	Gerrhosauridae Boulenger
1898	Gerrhosauridae Gadow p. 26
1946	Gerrhosauridae Kuhn p. 61
1966	Gerrhosauridae Kuhn p. 52
2008	Gerrhosauridae Burney et al. p. 19
2013	Gerrhosauridae Pyron et al.

References

Burney D. A., Vasey N., et al (2008) New findings at Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 70 1, 13-24

Gadow H. , A Classification of Vertebrata Recent and Extinct, xvii-82

Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67

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

Pyron R. A., Burbrink F. T., et al (2013) A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes, BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 1, 1-53 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93

web search (AJR) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Pough, F. H., R. M. Andrews, J. E. Cadle, M. L. Crump, A. H. Savitzky, and K. D. Wells, 1998: null. Herpetology. 577. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

CoL2006/EMBL Reptiles - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per included genera - 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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