Aethesia

Aethesia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	†Aethesia; Hutchinson and Scanlon, 2009
Species
	Aethesia frangens

Aethesia is an extinct skink (family Scincidae)[1] possibly related to the extant genus Tiliqua, blue-tongued skinks. It is known from the Wellington Caves of New South Wales in Australia. The holotype is the anterior portion of the left mandible, from the symphysis to the splenial bone and containing portions of the coronoid. Teeth number 9 to 15 are intact, with the eighth being a partial tooth and none of the other remaining past the mandible. The teeth slightly enlarge from anterior to posterior.[2]

References

"†Aethesia Hutchinson and Scanlon 2009". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
Hutchinson, Mark N. & Scanlon, John D. (2009). "New and unusual Plio-Pleistocene lizard (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Wellington Caves, New South Wales, Australia". Journal of Herpetology. 43 (1): 139–147. doi:10.1670/08-126R.1.

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[fossilworks-1] "†Aethesia Hutchinson and Scanlon 2009". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 1 January 2018.

[2] Hutchinson, Mark N. & Scanlon, John D. (2009). "New and unusual Plio-Pleistocene lizard (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Wellington Caves, New South Wales, Australia". Journal of Herpetology. 43 (1): 139–147. doi:10.1670/08-126R.1.