// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did Heloderma texana go to the party? Because it was a gila-ty pleasure.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Anguimorpha |
| Family: | Helodermatidae |
| Genus: | Heloderma |
| Species: | †H. texana |
| Binomial name | |
| †Heloderma texana Stevens, 1977[1] | |
Heloderma texana is an extinct species of heloderm lizard known from Miocene sediments in Big Bend National Park.[2] It is the oldest fossil record of the genus Heloderma in North America.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "†Heloderma texana Stevens 1977 (beaded lizard)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
- ↑ "Digimorph - Heloderma texana (fossil Gila monster)". digimorph.org. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
- ↑ Mead, Jim I.; Holte, Sharon; White, Richard S. & McCord, Robert (2015). "Early Pleistocene (Blancan) Helodermatid Lizard from Arizona, USA" (PDF). Journal of Herpetology. 49 (2): 295–301. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
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