Macrorhineura
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macrorhineura-201-15700878
title:
Macrorhineura
text:
Macrorhineura is an extinct genus of rhineurid amphisbaenian or worm lizard, including the type and only species Macrorhineura skinneri, named in 1970 on the basis of the front half of a skull from the Early Miocene Sharps Formation in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Although the skull is incomplete, features such as a pointed, shovel-shaped snout indicate that it belongs to the family Rhineuridae. Within Rhineuridae, Macrorhineura is most closely related to Ototriton and Hyporhina, two genera from
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of lizards
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrorhineura
date created:
date modified:
2022-08-21T16:16:15Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Macrorhineura_skinneri.png","width":2220,"height":1580}
fields total:
13
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15