Abstract Squamata (amphisbaenians,“lizards”, mosasaurs, and snakes) is an extremely
diverse clade with a rich fossil record. There is little consensus about the interrelationships …

The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Anguimorpha is a clade of limbed and limbless squamates with ca. 196 extant species and a
known fossil record spanning the past 130 million years. Morphology‐based and molecule …

Squamate faunas from the MN 1–3 interval (earliest Miocene) are poorly known in Europe
and worldwide. Our research brings the first report on a complete squamate fauna from the …

abstract Lizards (nonophidian squamates) from a vertical series of localities in the early
Eocene Wasatch Formation (Washakie Basin, Wyoming, USA) deposited during an interval …

ABSTRACT Pseudopus apodus (Pallas, 1775) is the largest extant legless species of the
subfamily Anguinae (Anguimorpha, Anguidae) living mostly in the sub‐arid territories …

We analyzed both mitochondrial (mt-) and nuclear (n) DNAs in a conservation phylogenetic
framework to examine deep and shallow histories of the Beaded Lizard (Heloderma …

Abstract The Crocodile lizard Shinisaurus crocodilurus, the only living representative of the
family Shinisauridae, is a habitat specialist adapted to remote freshwater habitats within …

Iguania is a diverse clade with an incompletely known fossil record. Here, we describe and
name the earliest iguanian known from a complete skeleton. The specimen (IGM 3/858) …

Xenosaurus is an enigmatic clade of Mexican and Central American lizards distinguished by
knob-like scalation and flattening of the head and body associated with living in cracks …