Chamaeleo caroliquarti

Chamaeleo caroliquarti
Temporal range: Lower Miocene, 26 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Chamaeleonidae
Genus: Chamaeleo
Species: C. caroliquarti
Binomial name
Chamaeleo caroliquarti
Moody & Rocek, 1980

Chamaeleo caroliquarti is an extinct species of chameleon from Lower Miocene-aged strata of the Czech Republic. C. caroliquarti is the oldest known representative of Chamaeleo, and, if the middle Paleocene-aged Anqingosaurus is not a chameleon, the oldest known chameleon.[1]

References

  1. Moody, S. & Rocek Z. (1980). "Chamaeleo caroliquarti (Chamaeleonidae, Sauria): a new species from the Lower Miocene of Central Europe" (PDF). Vestnik Ustredniho ustavu geologickeho. 55 (2): 85–92.


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