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Pristiguana brasilensis

Reptilia - Iguanidae

Taxonomy
Pristiguana brasilensis was named by Estes and Price (1973). Its type specimen is Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia no. 552, a partial skeleton (Frontals, left dentary with teeth, right surangular, left pterygoid, left humerus and fragments), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Price Quarry 1 (Caieira quarry), which is in a Maastrichtian fluvial sandstone in the Serra da Galga Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Pristiguana.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Pristiguana brasilensis Estes and Price
1983Pristiguana brasilensis Estes p. 44 fig. 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Squamata()
—IguanomorphaSukhanov 1961
—Pleurodonta(Cope 1864)
familyIguanidaeOppel 1811
genusPristiguana
speciesbrasilensis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Pristiguana brasilensis Estes and Price 1973
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
R. Estes and L. I. Price 1973Iguanid lizard differing from all known members of the family in having relatively elongate preorbital region of frontal; among iguanids shares primitive large splenial of mandible with Morunasaurus, Enyaliodes, and Hoplocercus. Differs from the latter genera principally in frontal proportions, and from Morunasaurus in particular in lacking flared tooth crowns.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: omnivoref
Created: 2005-09-05 19:41:07
Modified: 2005-09-05 21:41:07
Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Behler and King 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Brazil (Minas Gerais) Pristiguana brasilensis (type locality: 51628)