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. 2016 Mar 4;2(3):e1501080. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1501080

Fig. 1. Squamates in amber from the four known localities.

Fig. 1

Color key: Black, stem Squamata; blue, stem Gekkota; green, Lacertoidea; red, Acrodonta; orange, Pleurodonta. Early Cretaceous from the Lebanon (Valanginian-Barremian): Squamata, (1) Baabdasaurus xenurus (MNHN Entomology). Albian of France: Squamata, (2) MNHN Arc 237.5. Mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar: Squamata, (3) JZC Bu269, (4) JZC Bu268, (5) JZC Bu267, (6) AND-B-870, (7) JCZ Bu 1848; Gekkota, (8) C. burmae (Poinar collection #B-V-4), (9) JCZ Bu1847, (10) MCZ R-190835, (11) JCZ Bu1802; Lacertoidea, (12) JZC Bu1803; Acrodonta, (13) MCZ R-190836, (14) JCZ Bu266, (15) JCZ Bu154. Eocene (Ypresian) Baltic region: Gekkota, (16) Yantarogekko balticus (GAM 1400); Lacertidae, (17 to 21) Succinilacerta succinea. Miocene (Burdigalian-Langhian) of Dominican Republic: Gekkota, (22 to 27) personal collection of Ettore Morone, (28) Sphaerodactylus dommeli (SMNS Do-3584), (29) S. dommeli (ZFMK 66238), (30) personal collection of Ettore Morone, (31) ZFMK specimen, (32) Sphaerodactylus ciguapa (MCZ R-186380); Serpentes, (33) scales from typhlophid snake; Anolis, (34) AMNH DR-SH-1, (35) A. dominicanus (NMBA, entomology no. P52), (36) SMU 74976, (37 to 39) specimens I, II, and III (Supplementary Materials), (40) SMNS Do-4871-M, (41) M-1062, (42) M-1153, (43) M-3410, (44) M-525, (45) OAAAA, (46) SMNS Do-5566-X, (47) M-2096, (48) RAAA (Supplementary Materials), (49) SMNS Do-5742, (50) SMNS Do-4886-B, (51) M-3016, (52) M-1273. Mexico: Anolis, (53) A. electrum (UCMP 68496 and UCMP 68497). All silhouettes at the same scale.