Bicuspidon smikros Nydam 2013 (squamates)

Reptilia - Squamata - Polyglyphanodontidae

Full reference: R. L. Nydam. 2013. Lizards and snakes from the Cenomanian through Campanian of southern Utah: filling the gap in the fossil record of Squamata from the Late Cretaceous of the Western Interior of North America. At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 370-423

Belongs to Bicuspidon according to R. L. Nydam 2013

Sister taxa: Bicuspidon hatzegiensis, Bicuspidon hogreli, Bicuspidon numerosus

Type specimen: UMNH VP 11627 (partial right dentary with three teeth). Its type locality is UMNH VP Loc. 162, Cedar Canyon roadcut, which is in a Cenomanian/Cenomanian floodplain mudstone/sandstone in the Naturita Formation of Utah.

Ecology: omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (2: Utah collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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