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1980 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Varanus, an Advanced Platynotan

Author : Dr. Olivier Rieppel

Published in: The Phylogeny of Anguinomorph Lizards

Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

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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.

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Title
Varanus, an Advanced Platynotan
Author
Dr. Olivier Rieppel
Copyright Year
1980
Publisher
Birkhäuser Basel
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9372-5_21