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Taxonomy
Varanus mokrensis was named by Ivanov et al. (2018). Its type specimen is SMM/009-09-11/372009, Pal. 1097 (parietal) and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Reptile Joint, West Quarry, Mokra, Miocene, which is in an Orleanian fissure fill claystone in the Czech Republic.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2018 | Varanus mokrensis Ivanov et al. |
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†Varanus mokrensis Ivanov et al. 2018
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. Ivanov et al. 2018 | Mid-sized Varanus with estimated snout-vent length up to about 38 cm; differs from all other species in the genus on the basis of a single autapomorphy – parietal and squamosal processes of postorbitofrontal forming a
distinctly acute angle – and the following combination of features: (1) short septomaxilla with flat dorsal surface; (2) frontal and anterolateral postorbital processes of post- orbitofrontal forming obtuse angle; (3) posterior margin of nasal lobe of frontal situated in middle of dorsal width of rostral process; (4) posterior margin of anteroposter- iorly elongated frontal relatively narrow; (5) parietal with wide subrectangular fronto-postfrontal processes, anteri- orly arched fronto-parietal suture, and parietal foramen situated significantly posterior to anterior margin of bone (more than one-third of parietal plate length); (6) distance between medially converging parietal crests of parietal shortest in posterior quarter of parietal plate length; (7) otoccipital with very distinct occipital crest at base of paroccipital process; (8) pointed conical teeth with dis- tally recurved apices and prominent smooth mesial and distal cutting edges; (9) trunk vertebrae with moderately developed depression between pars tectiformis and medial margin of prezygapophyses and with posterolaterally directed postzygapophyses forming a right angle; (10) preacetabular process of ilium prominent and directed at right angle to pubic process; and (11) bifurcated iliac crest prominent. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Pianka and Vitt 2003 | |||||