Beipiaopterus Beipiaopterus Beipiaopterus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur (flying reptile) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Aptian) in the People's Republic of China. The genus was named in 2003 by Lü Junchang. The generic name is derived from Beipiao City in Liaoning Province and a Latinised Greek "pteron", "wing". The specific epithet honours paleontologist Professor Chen Peiji. The type and only species is based on holotype BPM 0002, a crushed partial skeleton of a subadult individual on a slab, missing the skull. It includes four cervical, fourteen dorsal, three sacral and nine caudal vertebrae, a complete left wing and two
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;