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Yantarogekko is an extinct genus of gecko known from a single specimen found trapped in Eocene-aged Baltic amber[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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Yantarogekko is an extinct genus of gecko known from a single specimen found trapped in Eocene-aged Baltic amber[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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Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 11:37:32 JST Paul Ford

I keep thinking about this lizard preserved in amber from ~50 million years ago. I mean—they were just doing lizard stuff, fell into amber, and 50 million years later they show up on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantarogekko (via https://mltshp.com/p/1O7OJ)

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