Retinosaurus
Retinosaurus (meaning "amber lizard") is an extinct genus of scincomorph lizard from the Early Cretaceous of Myanmar. The genus contains a single species, Retinosaurus hkamtiensis, known from a specimen preserved in amber.
| Retinosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, (early Albian), | |
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| (a) Photograph of the specimen in amber and (b-e) HRCT rendering of the integument | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Superfamily: | Scincoidea |
| Genus: | †Retinosaurus Čerňanský et al., 2022 |
| Species: | †R. hkamtiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Retinosaurus hkamtiensis Čerňanský et al., 2022 | |
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