Polyglyphanodon sternbergi Gilmore 1940 (squamates)

Reptilia - Squamata - Polyglyphanodontidae

Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1940. New fossil lizards from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 99(16):1-3

Belongs to Polyglyphanodon according to R. Estes 1983

See also Gao and Fox 1991, Gilmore 1940, Gilmore 1942 and Longrich et al. 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 15477, a partial skeleton (skull, jaws and most of the postcranial skeleton). Its type locality is South Dragon Canyon, "lizard locality", which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the North Horn Formation of Utah.

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution: found only at South Dragon Canyon, "lizard locality"

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