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Barbatteiidae

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Barbatteiidae
Temporal range: Maastrichtian 72–69 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Clade: Teiioidea
Family: Barbatteiidae
Codrea et al, 2017
Genera

Barbatteiidae is an extinct family of lizards, endemic to the paleoisland Hațeg Island in the Tethys Ocean during the final stages of the Cretaceous, In what is now Romania. It contains two monotypic genera, Barbatteius and Oardasaurus, alongside some indeterminate material. It appears to be closely related to modern teiids and the Early Cretaceous lizard genus Meyasaurus [1]

References

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  1. ^ Codrea, V.A.; Venczel, M.; Solomon, A. (2017). "A new family of teiioid lizards from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania with notes on the evolutionary history of early teiioids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (2): 385–399. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx008.