Yantarogekko Temporal range: | |
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Holotype specimen of Y. balticus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Infraorder: | Gekkota |
Genus: | † Yantarogekko Bauer et al., 2005 |
Species: | †Y. balticus |
Binomial name | |
†Yantarogekko balticus Bauer et al., 2005 | |
Yantarogekko is an extinct genus of gecko known from a single specimen found in Baltic amber from the Eocene Prussian Formation of Kaliningrad, Russia. [1] The remains consist of the anterior half of a body with partially preserved limbs (including preserved toe pads on one limb), lacking a skeleton. [2] While considered in its initial description to be a member of the family Gekkonidae, [1] the limited nature of known remains combined with its morphology not closely resembling any living family of geckos make it impossible to assign it any more precisely than Gekkonoidea. [3]