Barbatteiidae is an extinct family of lizards, endemic to the paleoisland

Hațeg Island Hațeg Island was a large offshore Former island, island in the Tethys Sea which existed during the Late Cretaceous period, probably from the Cenomanian to the Maastrichtian ages. It was situated in an area corresponding to the region around moder ...

in the

Tethys Ocean The Tethys Ocean ( ; ), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era. It was the predecessor to the modern Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Eurasia ...

during the final stages of the

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ...

, In what is now

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

. It contains two monotypic genera, ''

Barbatteius ''Barbatteius'' is an extinct genus of teiid lizard represented by the type species ''Barbatteius vremiri'' from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. ''B. vremiri'' was named in 2016 on the basis of a well preserved skull from the Haţeg Basin and d ...

'' and '' Oardasaurus'', alongside some indeterminate material. It appears to be closely related to modern teiids and the Early Cretaceous lizard genus ''

Meyasaurus ''Meyasaurus'' is an extinct genus of Teiid lizard known from the Barremian of Spain and the Isle of Wight, UK. Four species are known from Spain, from the La Huérguina, Camarillas, and La Pedrera de Rúbies Formations while an indeterminate ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q55639269 Late Cretaceous lepidosaurs of Europe Cretaceous Romania Fossils of Romania

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