Rediscovery of the long-lost holotype of the lacertid lizard Pseudeumeces cadurcensis (Filhol, 1877)

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Citation for this article: Bolet, A., J.-C. Rage, and J. L. Conrad. 2017. Rediscovery of the long-lost holotype of the lacertid lizard Pseudeumeces cadurcensis (Filhol, 1877). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1315669.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A.B. thanks C. Mehling for assistance when visiting the AMNH collections and for providing information on the studied specimen, and A. Balcarcel for providing approval for submitting a decedent-authored paper on behalf of the late J. L. Conrad. M. Norell provided A.B. with access to many specimens in the AMNH collection, including the material studied here. A.B.’s research received support from the SYNTHESYS Project, which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 ‘Capacities’ Program, from CERCA Programme and project (2014 /100604) of Generalitat de Catalunya, and from the EEBB program associated with the grant BES-2009-026731 of Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and project CGL2014-54373-P of Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), Spanish Government. We thank editor L. Werdelin for comments that greatly improved this article.