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Chamaeleo caroliquarti Temporal range: Lower Miocene,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Chamaeleonidae |
Genus: | Chamaeleo |
Species: | C. caroliquarti
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Chamaeleo caroliquarti Moody & Rocek, 1980
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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
[edit]- ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18.