†Abronia cuyama Scarpetta and Ledesma 2023 (Arboreal alligator lizards)
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Reptilia - Squamata - Anguidae
Full reference: S.G. Scarpetta and D.T. Ledesma. 2023. A strikingly ornamented fossil alligator lizard (Squamata: Abronia) from the Miocene of California. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197:752-767
Belongs to Abronia according to S.G. Scarpetta and D.T. Ledesma 2023
Sister taxon: Abronia deppei
Type specimen: UCMP 54560, a skull. Its type locality is Big Cat Quarry, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the MR Caliente Formation of California.
Ecology: insectivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Big Cat Quarry
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