Anniealexandria gansi Smith 2009 (worm lizard)

Reptilia - Squamata - Bipedidae

Full reference: K. T. Smith. 2009. A new lizard assemblage from the earliest Eocene (zone Wa0) of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA: biogeography during the warmest interval of the Cenozoic. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 7(3):299-358

Belongs to Anniealexandria according to K. T. Smith 2009

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UCMP 167594 (partial left dentary). Its type locality is Castle Gardens, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial mudstone in the Willwood Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Castle Gardens

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