Herbstosaurus Herbstosaurus Herbstosaurus is the name given to a genus of pterosaur that lived during the Jurassic period, in what is now Argentina. In 1969 Argentine paleobotanist Rafael Herbst in the province Neuquén at Picun Leufú dug up a piece of sandstone holding a number of disarticulated bones of a small reptile. At the time it was assumed the rock dated from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian), about 163 million years ago. In 1974/1975 paleontologist Rodolfo Magín Casamiquela named the find as a new genus. The type species is "Herbstosaurus pigmaeus". The genus name honours Herbst and connects his name to Greek
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;