Yantarogekko

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Yantarogekko
Temporal range: 55.8–33.9 Ma
File:Deutsches Bernsteinmuseum 04.jpg
Holotype specimen of Y. balticus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Gekkota
Genus: Yantarogekko
Bauer et al., 2005
Species:
Y. balticus
Binomial name
Yantarogekko balticus
Bauer et al., 2005

Yantarogekko is an extinct genus of gecko known from a single specimen found in Baltic amber from the Eocene Prussian Formation of Kaliningrad, Russia.[1] The remains consist of the anterior half of a body with partially preserved limbs (including preserved toe pads on one limb), lacking a skeleton.[2] While considered in its initial description to be a member of the family Gekkonidae,[1] the limited nature of known remains combined with its morphology not closely resembling any living family of geckos make it impossible to assign it any more precisely than Gekkonoidea.[3]

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