Gobekko
Gobekko Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Infraorder: | Gekkota |
Genus: | †Gobekko Borsuk-Białynicka, 1990 |
Type species | |
†Gobekko cretacicus Borsuk-Białynicka, 1990
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Gobekko is an extinct genus of gecko or gecko-like lizard from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Gobekko is either a basal member of Gekkota, the group that includes geckos and the legless pygopodid lizards, or a stem-gekkotan outside Gekkota but within the larger group Gekkonomorpha. It is the fourth oldest known member of Gekkonomorpha after Hoburogekko, a gecko from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia, AMNH FR21444, an unnamed specimen also from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia, and Cretaceogekko, a gecko preserved in amber from the Early Cretaceous of Burma.[1]
References[]
- ^ Daza, J. D.; Bauer, A. M.; Snively, E. (2013). "Gobekko cretacicus (Reptilia: Squamata) and its bearing on the interpretation of gekkotan affinities". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (3): 430. doi:10.1111/zoj.12012.
Categories:
- Cretaceous lizards
- Late Cretaceous lepidosaurs of Asia
- Geckos
- Djadochta fauna
- Gobi Desert
- Fossil taxa described in 1990
- Gecko stubs
- Prehistoric lizard stubs