Ardeosaurus

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title: Ardeosaurus
text: Ardeosaurus is an extinct genus of basal lizards, known from fossils found in the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Plattenkalk of Bavaria, southern Germany. It was originally thought to have been a species of Homeosaurus. Ardeosaurus was originally considered to be a distant relative to modern geckos, and had a similar physical appearance. Evans and colleagues, however, showed it in 2005 to be a basal squamate outside the crown group of all living lizards and snakes. A subsequent study conducted by Simõe
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description: Extinct genus of lizards
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeosaurus
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date modified: 2023-12-17T18:11:27Z
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