''Schillerosaurus'' was a genus of prehistoric

lizard Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...

of the Late Jurassic

Morrison Formation The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic, Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. It is composed of mudstone, sandsto ...

of Western North America, and is currently the only squamate genus known to be endemic to the Morrison Formation.Foster, J. (2007). "Table 2.1: Fossil Vertebrates of the Morrison Formation." ''Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World''. Indiana University Press. pp. 58-59. Described based on a partial skeleton from

Dinosaur National Monument Dinosaur National Monument is an American national monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa rivers. Although most of the monument area is in ...

by Susan Evans and Dan Chure in 1999 as ''Schilleria utahensis'', its name was subsequently changed to ''Schillerosaurus'' due to the former name already being occupied by a modern-day arachnid subgenus. Other than it belonging to the infraorder scincomorpha, its further relations are unknown. It is thought to have been an

insectivore A robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous animal or plant that eats insects. An alternative term is entomophage, which can also refer to the human practice of eating insects. The first vertebrate insectivores wer ...

like most of its modern relatives due to their morphological similarities. Possibly present in stratigraphic zone 5.Foster, J. (2007). "''Enneabatrachus hechti''" ''Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World''. Indiana University Press. p. 137.

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