1980 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Varanus, an Advanced Platynotan
Author : Dr. Olivier Rieppel
Published in: The Phylogeny of Anguinomorph Lizards
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The features enumerated to characterise the platynotan status of Heloderma are also found in Varanus. They are the narrowly based bodenaponeurosis, the restriction of the origin of the 3b-layer to the mesial surface of the supratemporal and the insertion of the episterno-cleido-mastoideus into the supratemporal process of the parietal.