Calanguban Knowpia

Calanguban; Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Genus:	†Calanguban; Simões et al., 2014
Type species
	†Calanguban alamoi; Simões et al., 2014

Calanguban is an extinct genus of scincomorph lizard from the Early Cretaceous of South America. The type species Calanguban alamoi was named in 2014 from the Crato Formation of Brazil and is the oldest known non-iguanian lizard from the continent. It likely had an arboreal lifestyle.^[1]

References edit

^ Simões, Tiago R.; Caldwell, Michael W.; Kellner, Alexander W. A. (2014). "A new Early Cretaceous lizard species from Brazil, and the phylogenetic position of the oldest known South American squamates". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 13 (7): 601. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.947342.