Reassembled Skull Bones of <em>Egernia Gillespieae</em>, a 15 Million Year Old Skink (IMAGE)

Flinders University

Reassembled Skull Bones of <em>Egernia Gillespieae</em>, a 15 Million Year Old Skink

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The reassembled skull bones of Egernia gillespieae, a 15 million year old skink from Riversleigh World Heritage Area of northwestern Queensland. Remarkably similar to modern social skinks (silhouette shown) E. gillespieae instead is equipped with rounded crushing teeth and a deep, thick jaw.

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M. Hutchinson, P. Stokes and K. Thorn

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