Family Varanidae Hardwicke and Gray 1824 (monitor lizard)

Reptilia - Squamata - Varanidae

Parent taxon: Varanoidea according to J. L. Conrad 2006

See also Alifanov 1993, Alifanov 2000, Baur 1890, Borsuk-Bialynicka 1984, Carroll 1988, Clos 1995, Cope 1871, Cope 1875, de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2020, Estes 1964, Estes 1983, Estes and Berberian 1970, Estes et al. 1988, Frank and Ramus 1996, Gadow 1898, Gao and Fox 1996, Gao and Hou 1996, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Huene 1954, Ivanov et al. 2018, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1966, Lee and Caldwell 2000, McDowell and Bogert 1954, McGrew et al. 1959, Peng et al. 2001, Perrier 1928, Seiffert 1975, Smith 2006, Stritzke 1983, Vasilyan and Bukhsianidze 2020 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Aiolosaurus, Arcanosaurus, Heloderma, Helodermatidae, Judeasaurus, Lanthanotidae, Ovoo, Pachyvaranidae, Parasaniwidae, Saniwinae

Subtaxa: Archaeovaranus Cherminotus Lanthanotus Megalaninae Saniwides Telmasaurus Varaninae Varanus

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (21 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Eritrea (2), Greece (1), Guam (4), India (1), Indonesia (7), Kenya (3), New Caledonia (2), Niger (1), Northern Mariana Islands (2), the Philippines (2), South Africa (3), Sudan (7), Tanzania (1), Thailand (3), Zambia (3)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Uganda (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (2), Greece (1), Hungary (2), Kenya (1), Pakistan (1), Spain (1), Turkey (2), Ukraine (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Uganda (1)

• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Armenia (1), Austria (3), Chad (1), China (1), the Czech Republic (2), Egypt (1), France (8), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Greece (6), Hungary (1), India (3), Italy (3), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (6), Moldova (2), Namibia (1), Pakistan (4), Portugal (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (10), Switzerland (1), Turkey (2)

• Oligocene of Australia (2), Egypt (2)

• Eocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Portugal (1), United States (1: Wyoming)

• Paleocene of United States (1: North Dakota)

• Cretaceous of China (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (1), Mongolia (4), United States (4: Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming)

Total: 168 collections including 179 occurrences

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