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Igua
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Clade: Gobiguania
Genus: Igua
Borsuk-Białynicka and Alifanov, 1991
Type species
Igua minuta
Borsuk-Białynicka and Alifanov, 1991

Igua is an extinct genus of iguanian lizards belonging to a group called Gobiguania that was endemic to the Gobi Desert during the Late Cretaceous. The type species Igua minuta was named in 1991 on the basis of a skull from the Barun Goyot Formation in Mongolia. The skull itself is very small, only 14 millimetres (0.55 in) long, and may have belonged to a juvenile given that it possesses a large fontanelle and that many of the bones are unfused. The snout-vent length of the individual (the total body length minus the tail) is estimated to have been 55 to 65 millimetres (2.2 to 2.6 in). Igua differs from related gobiguanians like Polrussia in having a more rounded skull. It is similar in appearance to the living genera Liolaemus and Tropidurus. The teeth are tricuspid and pleurodont, meaning they are attached to inner surfaces of the jaws.[1]

Below is a cladogram from Daza et al. (2012) showing the phylogenetic relationships of Igua:[2]

Iguania

Hoyalacerta sanzi

Huehuecuetzpalli mixtecus

Pristiguana brasiliensis

Chamaeleontiformes

Priscagamidae

Acrodonta

Iguanoidea (=Pleurodonta)
Silvaiguana

Hoplocercidae

Polychrotidae

Polrussia mongoliensis

Igua minuta

Isodontosaurus gracilis

Anchaurosaurus gilmorei

Zapsosaurus sceliphros

Saichangurvel davidsoni

Temujinia ellisoni

Ctenomastax parva

Euiguana

Corytophanidae

Terraiguana

Iguanidae

Crotaphytidae

Phrynosomatidae

Opluridae

Uquiasaurus

Liolaemidae

Leiocephalus

Tropiduridae

References

  1. ^ Borsuk-Białynicka, M.; Alifanov, V.R. "First Asiatic 'iguanid' lizards in the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 36 (3): 325–342.
  2. ^ Daza, J. D.; Abdala, V.; Arias, J. S.; García-López, D.; Ortiz, P. (2012). "Cladistic Analysis of Iguania and a Fossil Lizard from the Late Pliocene of Northwestern Argentina". Journal of Herpetology. 46: 104–119. doi:10.1670/10-112. hdl:11336/61054. S2CID 85405843.


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