Varanus sivalensis Temporal range: Pliocene to Pleistocene, | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Varanidae |
Genus: | Varanus |
Species: | †V. sivalensis |
Binomial name | |
†Varanus sivalensis Falconer, 1858 | |
Varanus sivalensis, also known as the Indian Dragon,[ citation needed ] is a species of monitor lizard that originally lived in India in the Pinjor Formation during the Pliocene through the early Pleistocene. [1] As its name implies, it was broadly comparable in size to the extant Komodo Dragon.