Catactegenys
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catactegenys-197-18286774
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Catactegenys
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Catactegenys is an extinct genus of xantusiid lizard from the Late Cretaceous of Texas. The type species, Catactegenys solaster, was named in 2013 from the late-Campanian-age Aguja Formation in Brewster County. The genus name means "breaker jaw" in Greek, a reference to its inferred ability to break hard shells with its jaws as an adaptation for a durophagous diet, and the species name means "lone star", a reference to Texas, the "lone star state". Catactegenys is known only from jaw bones, but
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Extinct genus of lizards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catactegenys
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2021-03-03T01:56:03Z
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