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- Ctenosaura is a lizard genus commonly known as spinytail iguanas or ctenosaurs. The genus is part of the large lizard family Iguanidae and is native to...
- paleontologist Friedrich von Huene designated it to the new species Ctenosaurus koeneni. Von Huene considered C. koeneni to be a late-surviving species...
- spines as belonging to a new species of the pelycosaurian reptile Ctenosaurus, Ctenosaurus rugosus (the specific name means "wrinkled, shriveled"), since...
- allowing them to graze algae off of rocks more easily. Together with a few Ctenosaurus species, it is the only iguana that never has more than three tips (tricuspid)...
- first discovered in 1871 and originally named as the (preoccupied) genus Ctenosaurus in 1902. Its affinities were strongly debated until stabilizing as poposauroid...
- genera were named: Cacops aspidephorus and Platyhystrix (as a species of Ctenosaurus; proper name erected in 1911). Case also provided new information on...
- †Coronelsuchus †Cricosaurus †Crocodilaemus Crocodylus †Ctenosauriscus Ctenosauruspreoccupied by extant iguanid, referred to Ctenosauriscus †Culebrasuchus...