Hongshanxi
| Hongshanxi Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Genus: | †Hongshanxi |
| Species: | †H. xiei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Hongshanxi xiei Dong et al., 2019
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Hongshanxi is an extinct genus of lizard that lived in Liaoning, China during the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch.[1]
Taxonomy
Hongshanxi xiei, the type species, has an uncertain phylogenetic position, with it fluctuating depending on the position of Gekkota within Squamata.[2]
References
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". Retrieved 26 December 2025.
- ^ Dong, Liping; Wang, Yuan; Mou, Lijie; Zhang, Guoze; Evans, Susan E. (13 September 2019). "A new Jurassic lizard from China". Geodiversitas. 41 (16): 623. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a16. ISSN 1280-9659. Retrieved 26 December 2025 – via BioOne Digital Library.