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Gueragama
''Gueragama'' is an extinct genus of iguanian lizard from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. It belongs to a group of iguanians called Acrodonta, whose living members include chameleons and agamids and are currently restricted to the Old World. ''Gueragama'' is the only acrodont known from South America, providing evidence that the group once ranged across much of Gondwana and only became restricted to the Old World after the supercontinent broke apart. The type species, ''Gueragama sulamericana'', was named in 2015 on the basis of an isolated lower jaw from the Turonian- to Campanian-age Goio-Erê Formation in the Bauru Basin, which was deposited in a desert environment. Unlike modern acrodontans, whose teeth implant on the margins of the jaws, ''Gueragama'' has teeth that implant along the inner surface of the lower jaw, a feature common in most non-acrodontan lizards and characteristic of the second major group of iguanians, Pleurodonta. The non-acrodont dentition of ''Gueragama'' is evidence of its basal position within Acrodonta, and is shared with a group of Late Cretaceous acrodontan relatives called Priscagamidae. ==References==
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