Chometokadmon fitzingeri Costa 1864 (squamates)

Reptilia - Squamata

Synonym: Lacerta brevicauda Costa 1866

Full reference: O. G. Costa. 1864. Paleontologia del Regno di Napoli. Parte III [Paleontology of the Kingdom of Naples. Part III]. Atti dell'Accademia Pontaniana 8:1-192

Belongs to Chometokadmon according to S. E. Evans and P. Raia 2006

See also Barbera and Macuglia 1988, Barbera and Macuglia 1991, Costa 1864 and D'Erasmo 1914

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

  • Chometokadmon fitzingeri: MPN 539, a skeleton. Its type locality is Civita di Pietraroja (upper plattenkalk), which is in an Albian basinal (carbonate) mudstone/wackestone in Italy.
  • Lacerta brevicauda:

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Civita di Pietraroja (upper plattenkalk)

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