Chamops

Chamops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 66 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Clade:†Polyglyphanodontia
Genus:†Chamops
Marsh, 1892
Type species
†Chamops segnis
Marsh, 1892
Synonyms
  • Alethesaurus (Gilmore, 1928)
  • Lanceosaurus (Gilmore, 1928)

Chamops is an extinct genus of polyglyphanodontian lizard from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Fossils have been found in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. It is known from only one species, C.segnis.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Marsh, O.C. (1892). "Notice of new reptiles from the Laramie formation". American Journal of Science. 43.


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