Tiliqua pusilla

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Tiliqua pusilla
Temporal range: Miocene 11.608–5.332  Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Tiliqua
Species:
†T. pusilla
Binomial name
†Tiliqua pusilla
Shea and Hutchinson, 1992

Tiliqua pusilla is an extinct species of the extant genus Tiliqua , the blue-tongued skinks. It lived during the Miocene period. It was described in 1992 based on dentary fossils from Riversleigh Station, Queensland, [1] [2] and is the smallest known species of Tiliqua. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Shea, Glenn M.; Hutchinson, Mark N. (1992). "A new species of lizard (Tiliqua) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum . 32: 303–310 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. ↑ "†Tiliqua pusilla Shea and Hutchinson 1992 (skink)". The Paleobiology Database . Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  3. ↑ Hollenshead, Marci G.; Mead, Jim I.; Swift, Sandra L. (2011). "Late Pleistocene Egernia group skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) from Devils Lair, Western Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology . 35 (1): 31–51. doi:10.1080/03115518.2010.481827. ISSN   0311-5518. LCCN   2007247629. OCLC   321020127.
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