†Telmasaurus grangeri Gilmore 1943 (monitor lizard)
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Reptilia - Squamata - Varanidae
Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1943. Fossil lizards of Mongolia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 81(4):361-384
Belongs to Telmasaurus according to R. Estes 1983
See also Borsuk-Bialynicka 1984
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH 6645, a partial skeleton (posterior dorsal part of skull, three dorsal vertebrae, parts of others, rib and other bone fragments). Its type locality is Shabarakh Usu (AMNH loc. 12049), which is in a Campanian eolian sandstone in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia.
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Mongolia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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