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| Worm lizards Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent | |
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| A worm lizard | |
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| Suborder: | Amphisbaenia Gray, 1844 |
Amphisbaenia are a suborder of Squamata.
Amphisbaenians have features that link them to both lizards and snakes, but they have enough of their own features to be a separate suborder. Amphisbaenians can live both above and below the ground.
There are four families, made up of 18 genera, and about 160 species. view more...
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