Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to the clade Monstersauria.
Thus the genus endured for at least 10.5 million years, making it among the most persistent of monstersaurian taxa.
2005, Daniel David Beck, Biology of Gila Monsters and Beaded Lizards, University of California Press, page 312 more examples
Osteoderms, especially those fused to cranial elements, are common in monstersaurians, and in some other lizard groups.
2012, MEAD, JIM I., SCHUBERT, BLAINE W., WALLACE, STEVEN C., SWIFT, SANDRA L., “Helodermatid lizard from the Mio-Pliocene oak-hickory forest of Tennessee, eastern USA, and a review of monstersaurian osteoderms.”, in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, volume 57, number 1, page 112The DC specimen confirms the presence of monstersaurian squamates in the Wapiti Formation, representing the northernmost record of any definitive Late Cretaceous monstersaur to date.
2023 November, Hamilton, Samantha M., Paparella, Ilaria, Bell, Phil R., Campione, Nicolás E., Fanti, Federico, “New Lizard Specimens from the Campanian Wapiti Formation of Alberta, Canada.”, in Geosciences, volume 13, number 11, page 337
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