The specimen lay buried in a South Gloucestershire quarry - until a team from University College London discovered it in 1953, and added it to the Museum's collections.
and one other reptile.' As we continued to investigate the specimen, we became more and more convinced that it was actually more closely related to modern-day lizards than the Tuatara group."
The team made X-ray scans of the fossils at the University, which helped the, to reconstruct the fossil in three dimensions. "And to see all the tiny bones that were hidden inside the rock," said Whiteside.The results concluded that the animal was clearly a squamate, an anguimorph lizard that includes 350 species including the Gila monster to the Komodo monitor. Cryptovaranoides shares characteristics with modern lizards such as bone connections in their skull suggesting flexibility.
According to Whiteside, the finding is a very special fossil. "We would like to thank the late Pamela L. Robinson who recovered the fossils from the quarry and did a lot of preparation work on the type specimen and associated bones. It was such a pity she did not have access to CT scanning technology to help her observe all the detail of the specimen," he added.
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