''Chromatogenys'' is an extinct genus of

Scincomorph Scincomorpha is an infraorder and clade of lizards including Skink, skinks (Scincidae) and their close relatives. These include the living families Cordylidae (girdled lizards), Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards), and Xantusiidae (night lizards), as ...

lizard from the

Santonian The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage. It is a subdivision of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 86.3 ± 0.7 mya (million years ago) and 83.6 ± 0.7 mya. ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croa ...

, containing the species ''C. tiliquoides''. It is known from the

Csehbánya Formation The Csehbánya Formation is a geological formation in the Transdanubian Mountains of Veszprém County, Hungary. The formation dates to the Late Santonian (around 85-84 million years ago) of the Late Cretaceous. It represents a floodplain environm ...

with the remains consisting of a partial right mandible, the name coming from the vibrant colours on the preserved specimen. The dentition is

durophagous Durophagy is the eating behavior of animals that consume hard-shelled or exoskeleton bearing organisms, such as corals, shelled mollusks, or crabs. It is mostly used to describe fish, but is also used when describing reptiles, including fossil t ...

, and the animal likely ate hard shelled prey.

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Scincomorpha Prehistoric reptile genera Santonian life Late Cretaceous lepidosaurs of Europe Fossils of Hungary Fossil taxa described in 2015 {{paleo-lizard-stub