Name: Gueragama.
Phonetic: Gu-ra-gah-mah.
Named By: T. R. Sim�es, E. Wilner, M.
W. Caldwell, L. C. Weinsch�tz & A. W. A.
Kellner - 2015.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Diapsida,
Iguania, Acrodonta.
Species: G. sulamericana
(type).
Diet: Herbivore/uncertain.
Size: Unavailable due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: Brazil - Goio-Er� Formation.
Time period: Turonian-Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Lower jaw.
Gueragama is a genus of iguanian lizard that lived in South America during the late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A stem acrodontan lizard in the Cretaceous of Brazil revises early
lizard evolution in Gondwana. - Nature Communications
6:8149:1-8. - T. R. Sim�es, E. Wilner, M. W.
Caldwell, L. C. Weinsch�tz & A. W. A. Kellner
- 2015.
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