«We have laid down the structure of squamate relationships and yet this is still the beginning,» said Dr. Pyron. (sciencedaily.com)
«Squamates include all lizards and snakes found throughout the globe, including around 9,500 species on every continent except Antarctica, and found in most oceans,» said Dr. Pyron. (sciencedaily.com)
This fossil's quadrate bone is more C - shaped, and it surrounds the animal's hearing apparatus — a «characteristic feature» of a group of lizards called squamates, says co-author Robert Reisz, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Toronto in Mississauga, Canada. (sciencemag.org)