Danish Expedition to Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais - Amphisbaenia (Pleistocene of Brazil)
Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.6° S, 43.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.6° S, 43.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Gans and R. Montero. 1998. Two new fossil amphisbaenids (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Pleistocene of Lagoa Santa (Minas Gerais, Brazil). Steenstrupia 24(1):9-22 [C. Bell/C. Bell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63430: authorized by Chris Bell, entered by Chris Bell on 14.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Only amphisbaenian material is presented; two new species, plus indeterminate amphisbaenian material; Material is curated at Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen; ZMUC)
Show authors, comments, and common names
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Amphisbaenia indet. Gray 1844 worm lizard | |
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Amphisbaena laurenti Gans and Montero 1998 worm lizard
Amphisbaena braestrupi Gans and Montero 1998 worm lizard | |