Dorsetisaurus: a Mesozoic tegu, not an anguimorph

Known from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia
and the Late Jurassic of Portugal, Dorsetisaurus purbeckensis (BMNH R.8129, skull width: 1.4cm; Hoffstetter 1967; Fig. 1) was attributed to the clade of glass lizards (Anguimorpha) originally and in two later papers. Evans 2006 nested it between the highly derived legless skink, Amphisbaenia, and the basal gecko (in the LRT), Chometokadmon (which Evans considered an anguimorph).

By contrast
in the large reptile tree (LRT, 1318 taxa) Dorsetisaurus nests with the basal scerloglossan, lacertoid, teiid, Tupinambis (Fig. 2), the extant tegu lizard. Even the slight notch in the ventral maxilla is retained over 120 million years of evolution.

On a side note:

Gauthier et al. 2012 put together two squamate trees of life, one based on traits, another based on genes. Neither matches the LRT, which includes more fossil taxa.

References
Evans SE, Raia P, Barbera C 2006. The Lower Cretaceous lizard genus Chometokadmon from Italy. Cretaceous Research 27:673-683.
Gauthier, JA, et al. 2012. Assembling the squamate tree of life: Perspectives from the phenotype and the fossil record. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 53.1 (2012): 3-308.
Hoffstetter  R 1967. Coup d’oeil sur les Sauriens (lacertiliens) des couches de Purbeck (Jurassique supérieur d’Angleterre Résumé d’un Mémoire). Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 163:349-371.

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