Fossil remains of Old World lizard discovered in the New World overturn long-held hypothesis of lizard evolution

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - 09:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of lizard, named Gueragama sulamericana, in the municipality of Cruzeiro do Oeste in Southern Brazil in the rock outcrops of a Late Cretaceous desert, dated approximately 80 million years ago.

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