Anza Borrego Desert State Park lizards ( of the United States)

Also known as Vallecito Badlands

Where: California (33.0° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 115.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Palm Springs Formation, Blancan to Blancan (4.9 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

• "Material used in this study was collected by field parties of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, under the direction of Theodore Downs, from 1957 to the present" (Norell 1989)

Primary reference: M. A. Norell. 1989. Late Cenozoic Lizards of the Anza Borrego Desert, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Contributions in Science 414:1-31 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199543: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.01.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Specimen numbers have the format LACM X/Y, where X is the exact locality number and Y is the specimen number
Reptilia
 Squamata - Teiidae
Teiini indet. Presch 1974 squamates
LACM 6831/20929, LACM 6583/78300, LACM 1454/123325, LACM 1615/78299, LACM 1114/123326, LACM 1114/123327, LACM 1114/123328, LACM 1114/123329, LACM 1114/78194
 Squamata - Xantusiidae
Xantusia downsi n. sp. Norell 1989 night lizard
LACM 1114/123301 (holotype); LACM 1114/78198, LACM 1114/123302, LACM 1114/123303, LACM 1114/123304, LACM 1114/123305, LACM 1114/123306, LACM 1114/123307, LACM 1114/123308, LACM 1114/123309, LACM 1114/123310, LACM 1114/123311, LACM 1114/123312, LACM 1114/123313, LACM 1114/123315, LACM 1114/123316, LACM 1114/123317, LACM 1114/123318, LACM 1114/123319, LACM 1114/123335, LACM 1323/78292, LACM 6583/78244, LACM 1615/78274
 Squamata - Scincidae
Eumeces sp. Wiegmann 1834 skink
LACM 6522/123324, LACM 1437/78277, LACM 1437/178236, LACM 1615/78308
 Squamata - Iguanidae
Dipsosaurus dorsalis Baird and Girard 1852 Desert iguana
LACM 6831/20930, LACM 6559/10598, LACM 6552/78311, LACM 65571/10604
Pumilia novaceki n. gen. n. sp. Norell 1989 squamates
LACM 65116/13739 (holotype); LACM 6661/78310
Phrynosoma sp. Wiegmann 1828 horned lizard
LACM 6604/78293
Phrynosoma anzaense n. sp. Norell 1989 horned lizard
LACM 6822/64595 (holotype)
cf. Sceloporus "Type A" Wiegmann 1828 spiny lizard
LACM 6583/78235, LACM 6540/78305, LACM 6540/78306, LACM 6540/78307, LACM 1454/(unnumbered specimen), LACM 1196/78211, LACM 1196/78212, LACM 6712/20931, LACM 1615/4401, LACM 1615/78721, LACM 1615/78276, LACM 1615/78272, LACM 1113/123323, LACM 1114/78205, LACM 1114/123320, LACM 1114/123321, LACM 1114/123322, LACM 1114/123333, LACM 1114/12334, LACM 6707/78241, LACM 1297/64126
cf. Sceloporus "Type B" Wiegmann 1828 spiny lizard
LACM 6583/78246, LACM 6583/78247, LACM 6583/78248, LACM 6583/78249, LACM 6583/78250, LACM 1615/4401, LACM 1114/123330, LACM 1114/123331, LACM 1114/123332
 Squamata - Crotaphytidae
Gambelia corona n. sp. Norell 1989 Leopard lizards
LACM 7058/42880 (holotype)
 Squamata - Anguidae
Gerrhonotinae indet. Cope 1864 squamates
LACM 6552/10601