Gobiderma

Gobiderma
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Lepidosauria
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Scleroglossa
Infraorder: Anguimorpha
Superfamily: Helodermatoidea
Genus: Gobiderma
Borsuk-Białynicka, 1984
Type species
Gobiderma pulchrum
Borsuk-Białynicka, 1984

Gobiderma is an extinct genus of Late Cretaceous lizard whose fossils are known from the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia. It was first discovered as a result of a joint Polish-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, and formally named in 1984. In life, it probably resembled lizards of the genus Heloderma to a large degree, though its skull was more elongated than lizards of that genus.

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