-
group Platynota, the
varanoids first appear in the
fossil record in the
latter part of
Early Cretaceous, but
possible varanoid ancestors have been traced...
- the
closet living relative to
varanoids.
Pythonomorphs represented by
snakes today are not
closely related to
varanoids and are
instead a
sister lineage...
-
Morphological studies in the past had
classified helodermatids with the
varanoids in the
clade Platynota,
while the
Chinese crocodile lizard was classified...
-
Varanoid Lizards of the World.
Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34366-6. Pianka, Eric R.; King, Dennis; King, Ruth
Allen (2004).
Varanoid Lizards...
- (2012)
suggested that
mosasaurs are more
primitive than
either snakes or
varanoids. A
combined morphological and
molecular analysis by Reeder, et al., (2015)...
- than
other Cretaceous varanoid lizards,
approaching the size of
modern monitor lizards. Its
skull is
flatter than most
other varanoids. The
fusion of two...
- xenosaurid;
current molecular work has
shown evidence the
species related to
varanoids in the
clade Paleoanguimorpha.
Below is the
phylogeny of the neoanguimorph...
-
their kin". In King, Ruth Allen; Pianka, Eric R.; King,
Dennis (eds.).
Varanoid lizards of the world. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press. p. 45....
- of the Cretaceous,
including the
appeance of
groups like
iguanians and
varanoids, and true snakes. Polyglyphanodontia, an
extinct clade of lizards, and...
- (2005, p. 249)
diagnose Judeasaurus tchernovi as a
varanoid lizard:
distinguished from
other varanoids by the
conical shape of the
parietal process of the...
