Lapitiguana impensa Pregill & Worthy, 2003
Lapita iguana, Fiji(an) giant iguana
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: subfossil
Distribution
Fiji
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: S.037015 (http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=393754&coltype=fossil%20vertebrates®no=s.037015)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pregill, Gregory K, and, Worthy, T. H. (2003). A new iguanid lizard (Squamata, Iguanidae) from the late Quaternary of Fiji, Southwest Pacific. Herpetologica 59:1 57-67. [Abstract]
Other references:
Irwin, G., Worthy, Trevor H., Best, S., Hawkins, S., Carpenter, J. and Matararaba, S. (2011). Further Investigations at the Naigani Lapita site (VL 21/5), Fiji: Excavation, Radiocarbon Dating and Palaeofaunal Extinction. Journal of Pacific Archaeology 2: 66-78.
Worthy, Trevor H. and Anderson, Atholl. (2009). Results of palaeofaunal research, pp. 41-62. In: Clark, Geoffrey Richard and Anderson, Atoll (eds.). The Early Prehistory of Fiji. Terra Australis 31. Canberra: ANU E Press. 437 pp.
Worthy, Trevor H., Anderson, Atholl J. and Molnar, Ralph E. (1999). Megafaunal expression in a land without mammals – the first fossil faunas from terrestrial deposits in Fiji (Vertebrata: Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves). Senckenbergiana Biologica 79(2): 237-242.