The first fossils of geckos, skinks and snakes appear in the Middle Jurassic. Other groups like iguanians and varanoids appeared in the Cretaceous.
Squamata, or the scaled reptiles, is the largest recent order of reptiles, including lizards and snakes. Members of the order are distinguished by their skins, which ...
Squamates are the largest order of reptiles with nearly 9,500 species consisting of all extant lizards, worm lizards, and snakes. Squamata translates to "scaled ...
Humans and giraffes have seven neck vertebrae, while many squamates have eight. Some fossil lizards have as many as nineteen, including the fossil ...
Squamates first appeared in the fossil record during the mid-Jurassic and probably existed before that time. The fossil record for squamates is ...
The Squamata, a vertebrate group that includes 'lizards', amphisbaenians and snakes, have inhabited Patagonia since the Late Cretaceous. The ...
But the origin of squamates has long been an enigma. The order belongs to a larger group called lepidosaurs, a category that also includes a ...
A fossil Diploglossus (Squamata, Anguidae) lizard from Basse-Terre
Squamates have an extremely long evolutionary history with a fossil
trilineata (Squamata, Lacertidae) with a comparative study of the main cranial osteological differences in green lizards and their relatives. Andrej ...