Tiliqua frangens (Hutchinson & Scanlon, 2009)
Frangens
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Aethesia frangens Hutchinson & Scanlon, 2009
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
Thorn, Kailah M., Poropat, Stephen F., Bell, Phil R., Hocknull, Scott A., Kear, Bejamin P., Palci, Alessandro, Salisbury, Steven W. and Yates, Adam M. (2021). Checklist of the fossil reptile and amphibian species of Australia. Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 24 November 2024]