Lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians together constitute the Squamata, the largest and
most diverse group of living reptiles. Despite their current success, the early squamate fossil …

Snakes and lizards (Squamata) represent a third of terrestrial vertebrates and exhibit
spectacular innovations in locomotion, feeding, and sensory processing. However, the …

Abstract Squamata (amphisbaenians,“lizards”, mosasaurs, and snakes) is an extremely
diverse clade with a rich fossil record. There is little consensus about the interrelationships …

The Skull of Lizards and Tuatara Page 1 1 The Skull of Lizards and Tuatara SuSan E. EvanS
ConTenTS I. Introduction 1 A. Definitions and Scope 1 B. Previous Literature on the …

Squamates from the Mesozoic of North America have been collected since the end of the
nineteenth century. To date, the fossils are known to occur in the Late Jurassic, Aptian …

The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Squamata is the most diverse clade of terrestrial vertebrates. Although the origin of pan-
squamates lies in the Triassic, the oldest undisputed members of extant clades known from …

We use newly compiled data on global occurrences of Cretaceous lepidosaurs, mammals
and crocodylomorphs, and existing data on dinosaurs, to investigate faunal turnover and …

The sphenodontian Ankylosphenodon pachyostosus new genus and species is the second
unusual sphenodontian reported from the Albian deposits of the Tlayua Formation, near …

The squamates (lizards, snakes, and relatives) today comprise more than 10,000 species,
and yet their sister group, the Rhynchocephalia, is represented by a single species today …