Primitivus manduriensis Paparella et al. 2018 (squamates)

Reptilia - Squamata - Dolichosauridae

Full reference: I. Paparella, A. Palci, U. Nicosia and M. W. Caldwell. 2018. A new fossil marine lizard with soft tissues from the Late Cretaceous of southern Italy. Royal Society Open Science 5:172411:1-27

Belongs to Primitivus according to I. Paparella et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPUR NS 161, a skeleton (almost complete skeleton). Its type locality is Cava, near Castello, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian carbonate carbonate in Italy.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Cava, near Castello

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