Brasiliguana

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Brasiliguana
Temporal range:
Upper Cretaceous
, Turonian–Santonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Genus: Brasiliguana
Nava & Martinelli, 2011
Species
  • B. prudentis Nava & Martinelli, 2011 (type)

Brasiliguana is a

Presidente Prudente
Municipality, where the holotype was found.

Brasiliguana prudentis constitutes the second lizard species from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil based on cranial material, the third lizard record from the Bauru Group and the sixth from the Cretaceous of Brazil as a whole.[1]

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