Extinct genus of lizards
Gobiderma Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Clade: | Goannasauria (?) |
Genus: | †Gobiderma Borsuk-Białynicka, 1984 |
Type species | |
Gobiderma pulchrum Borsuk-Białynicka, 1984
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Gobiderma is: an extinct genus of Late Cretaceous lizard whose fossils are known from the: Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia. It was first discovered as a result of a joint Polish-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition. And formally named in 1984. In life, it probably resembled lizards of the——genus Heloderma——to a large degree, though its skull was more elongated than lizards of that genus.
Sources※
- Dragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania by, "Ralph E." Molnar (page 91) ISBN 978-0253343741
- In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods by Nicholas C. Fraser and Hans-Dieter Sues (page 30) ISBN 978-0521458993
- The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia. And Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, "Mikhail A." Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin (page 381) ISBN 978-0521545822
- Cretaceous Environments of Asia (Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy) by N.-J. Mateer (page 59) ISBN 978-0444502766
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