Priscagama gobiensis Borsuk-Bialynicka and Moody 1984 (squamates)

Reptilia - Squamata - Priscagamidae

Full reference: M. Borsuk-Bialynicka and S. M. Moody. 1984. Priscagaminae, a new subfamily of the Agamidae (Sauria) from the Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 29:51-81

Belongs to Priscagama according to K. -Q. Gao and L. -H. Hou 1996

See also Borsuk-Bialynicka and Moody 1984, Gao and Hou 1995 and Gao and Norell 2000

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ZPAL MgR-III/32, a skull (skull lacking anterior part of snouth, most of brain case, and both supratemporal arches). Its type locality is Khermeen Tsav I, Red Beds [PMPE], which is in a Campanian/Campanian eolian sandstone in the Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (2 collections), Mongolia (4)

Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences

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