Microteras

Not to be confused with Micropterus.

Microteras (/ˌmaɪkroʊˈtɛrəs/) is a genus of scincomorph squamate from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. Microteras was named in 2022 by a team of authors including Chase Brownstein, Dalton Meyer, Metteo Fabbri, Anjan Bhullar, and Jacques Gauthier. In the same publication, they named the related taxon, Eoscincus. The binomial name (M. borealis) is composed of several Ancient Greek words and roughly means "small wonder of the North".^[1]

Microteras Temporal range: Late Jurassic (Tithonian), 150–149 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
CT scans of several of the skull elements of Microteras
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scincomorpha
Genus:	†Microteras Brownstein et al., 2022
Type species
†Microteras borealis Brownstein et al., 2022