Tiliqua frangens (Hutchinson & Scanlon, 2009)
Frangens
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
New South Wales, Australia
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hutchinson, Mark N. and Scanlon, John D. (2009). New and unusual Plio-Pleistocene lizard (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Wellington Caves, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Herpetology 43(1): 139-147. https://doi.org/10.1670/08-126R.1
Other references:
Čerňanský, Andrej and Hutchinson, Mark N. (2013). A new large fossil species of Tiliqua (Squamata; Scincidae) from the Pliocene of the Wellington Caves (New South Wales, Australia). Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 37(1): 131-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2012.715326
Thorn, Kailah M., Fusco, Diana A., Hutchinson, Mark N., Gardner, M. G., Clayton, J. L., Prideaux, Gavin J. and Lee, Michael S. Y. (2023). A giant armoured skink from Australia expands lizard morphospace and the scope of the Pleistocene extinctions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 290(2000): 20230704. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0704