Schillerosaurus

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Schillerosaurus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Genus: Schillerosaurus

Schillerosaurus (originally named Schilleria, but this name turned out to be preoccupied)[1] was a genus of prehistoric lizard of the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of Western North America.[2]

Possibly present in stratigraphic zone 5.[3]

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  1. ^ Randall L. Lydam, Daniel J. Chure and Susan E. Evans (2013). "Schillerosaurus gen. nov., a replacement name for the lizard genus Schilleria Evans and Chure, 1999 a junior homonym of Schilleria Dahl, 1907" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3734 (1): 99–100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3736.1.6.
  2. ^ Foster, J. (2007). "Table 2.1: Fossil Vertebrates of the Morrison Formation." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 58-59.
  3. ^ Foster, J. (2007). "Enneabatrachus hechti" Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. p. 137.


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