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Late Cretaceous lepidosaurs of Asia

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Estesia
Estesia (in honour of Richard Estes) is an extinct genus of Late Cretaceous anguimorph lizard found in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
Ovoo gurvel
species of reptile (fossil)
Asprosaurus
Asprosaurus () is an extinct genus of anguimorph lizard from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of South Korea. The genus contains a single species, A. bibongriensis, which is the first Mesozoic lizard to have been discovered on the Korean peninsula. Initially classified as a possible monstersaurian, Asprosaurus has been subsequently suggested to be a probable mosasauroid, an extinct group of marine lizards during the Late Cretaceous.
Cherminotus longifrons
Cherminotus is an extinct genus of varanoid lizard from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. The type and only species, Cherminotus longifrons, was named in 1984.
Igua
Igua is an extinct genus of iguanian lizards belonging to a group called Gobiguania that was endemic to the Gobi Desert during the Late Cretaceous. The type species Igua minuta was named in 1991 on the basis of a skull from the Barun Goyot Formation in Mongolia. The skull itself is very small, only long, and may have belonged to a juvenile given that it possesses a large fontanelle and that many of the bones are unfused. The snout-vent length of the individual (the total body length minus the tail) is estimated to have been . Igua differs from related gobiguanians like Polrussia in having a mo
Pontosaurus
thumb|left|220px|Head of Pontosaurus kornhuberi Pontosaurus is a now extinct genus of pythonomorph from the Late Cretaceous period. The type species, P. lesinensis, is from Hvar in Croatia. It was originally named Hydrosaurus lesinensis and placed in the genus Hydrosaurus Wagler, 1830, which is preoccupied by the agamid genus Hydrosaurus Kaup, 1828, and now considered a synonym of Varanus, but later placed in a separate genus Pontosaurus. A second species, P. kornhuberi, is known from the Sannine Formation in Lebanon.