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Tupinambis uruguaianensis Hsiou, 2007

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Brazil

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Holotype: MCN-PV 2184

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Hsiou, A. S. (2007). A new Teiidae species (Squamata, Scincomorpha) from the Late Pleistocene of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 10(3): 181-194.

 

Other references:

Brizuela, S. (2010). Los lagartos continentales fósiles de la Argentina (excepto Iguania): La Plata, Argentina, Faculdad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Doctoral thesis, 408 pp.

Kerber, Leonardo, Pitana, Vanessa Gregis, Ribeiro, Ana Maria, Hsiou, Annie Schmaltz and Oliveira, Edison V. (2014). Late Pleistocene vertebrates from Touro Passo Creek (Touro Passo Formation), southern Brazil: a review. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 31(2): 248-259.

Scanferla, C.A., Agnolin, F., Voglino, D., 2009, Boiruna cf. B. maculata (Ophidia: Colubroides) from the Early to Middle Pleistocene of Argentina, and the effects of Pleistocene extinctions on South American reptiles: South American Journal of Herpetology, 4(3), 259-267.

 

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