Stypodontosaurus melletes Gao and Fox 1996 (squamates)

Reptilia - Squamata - Chamopsiidae

Full reference: K. -Q. Gao and R. C. Fox. 1996. Taxonomy and evolution of Late Cretaceous lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from western Canada. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of natural History 33:1-107

Belongs to Stypodontosaurus according to K. -Q. Gao and R. C. Fox 1996

See also Longrich et al. 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UALVP 29844, a mandible (nearly complete right dentary having 16 teeth and the base of another). Its type locality is Trochu (KUA-1), which is in a Lancian terrestrial claystone/siltstone in the Scollard Formation of Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Trochu (KUA-1)

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