Agama schleichi Joshi & Kotlia, 2010
Schleich's agama (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Agama schleichi Kotlia & Joshi, 2006 (nomen nudum); Agama schleichi Kotlia & Joshi, 2008 (nomen nudum)
"The material was described by Joshi and Kotlia (2010) as a new species, Agama schleichi (note, however, that the type material of this species is represented only by jaw fragments with general rather than unique tooth morphology; the problem is that tricuspid teeth of a similar form are present in many species of Agamidae"
(Čerňanský et al., 2022)
Conservation Status
Extinct if valid (see Čerňanský et al., 2022)
Last record: c. 72,000 BC
Distribution
India
Type locality: "Devakachar (23° 23’N; 79° 17’E), 120km southwest of Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh)." (Joshi & Kotlia, 2010:3)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
All of the following material is housed in the Palaeontology laboratory, Department of Geology, Kumaun University, Nainital:
Holotype: NAR/L5 ("a dentary")
Paratype: NAR/L4 ("upper jaw")
Referred material:
"NAR/L1, NAR/L2 and NAR/L3, jaw fragments; NAR/L4, upper jaw; NAR/L5, dentary" (Joshi & Kotlia, 2010:3).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Joshi, Moulishree and Kotlia, B. S. (2010). First Report of the Late Pleistocene Fossil Lizards from Narmada Basin, Central India. e-Journal Earth Science India 3(1): 1-8.
Other references:
Čerňanský, Andrej, Singh, Ningthoujam Premjit, Patnaik, Rajeev, Sharma, K. Milankumar, Tiwari, Raghavendra Prasad, Sehgal, Ramesh Kumar, Singh, Nongmaithem Amardas and Choudhary, Deepak. (2022). The Miocene fossil lizards from Kutch (Gujarat), India: a rare window to the past diversity of this subcontinent. Journal of Paleontology 96(1): 213-223. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.85
Kotlia, B. S. and Joshi, Moulishree. (2006). Late Pleistocene environment around the Hominid population in Narmada Basin, Central India. Senckenbergiana lethaea 86(2): 283-287.
Kotlia, B. S. and Joshi, Moulishree. (2008). Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene palaeoecology of the Upper Narmada valley (Central India) using fossil communities. Palaeoworld 17: 153-159.
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