Lonchognathosaurus Lonchognathosaurus Lonchognathosaurus was a genus of dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Lianmuqin Formation of Xinjiang, China. The genus was named in 2004 by Michael Maisch, Andreas Matzke and Sun Ge. The type species is "Lonchognathosaurus acutirostris". The genus name is derived from Greek "lonchos", "lance", "gnathos", "jaw" and "sauros", "lizard", in reference to the fact that it is a reptile with pointed jaws. The specific name means "needle snout" in Latin. "Lonchognathosaurus" is based on holotype SGP 2001/19, found near Urumqi in the southern Junggar Basin, the front portion of a skull and lower jaws that came
Desert plated lizard reclassified as "Gerrhosaurus skoogi". Desert plated lizard The desert plated lizard ("Gerrhosaurus skoogi") is a reptile species endemic to the northern Namib Desert in Namibia and Angola. Also known as the sand plated lizard, it is diurnal. The specific name, "skoogi", is in honor of Hilmer Nils Erik Skoog (1870–1927), who was Curator of the "" from 1904 to 1927. In 1916 Andersson described this lizard as a new species, naming it "Gerrhosaurus skoogi". In 1953 FitzSimons assigned the species to a new genus "Angolosaurus". Recent studies suggest that this monotypic genus is synonymous to "Gerrhosaurus" and makes it paraphyletic;