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| Microteras Temporal range: Late Jurassic (Tithonian), | |
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| CT scans of several of the skull elements of Microteras | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Genus: | †Microteras Brownstein et al., 2022 |
| Type species | |
| †Microteras borealis Brownstein et al., 2022 | |
Microteras (/ˌmaɪkroʊˈtɛrəs/) is a genus of scincomorph squamate from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. Microteras was named in 2022 by a team of authors including Chase Brownstein, Dalton Meyer, Metteo Fabbri, Anjan Bhullar, and Jacques Gauthier. In the same publication, they named the related taxon, Eoscincus. The binomial name (M. borealis) is composed of several Ancient Greek words and roughly means "small wonder of the North".[1]
References
[edit]- ↑ Brownstein, Chase D.; Meyer, Dalton L.; Fabbri, Matteo; Bhullar, Bhart-Anjan S.; Gauthier, Jacques A. (2022). "Evolutionary origins of the prolonged extant squamate radiation". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 7087. Bibcode:2022NatCo..13.7087B. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34217-5. PMC 9708687. PMID 36446761.
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