Tiliqua pusilla
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| Tiliqua pusilla Temporal range: Miocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Tiliqua |
| Species: | †T. pusilla |
| Binomial name | |
| †Tiliqua pusilla Shea and Hutchinson, 1992 | |
Tiliqua pusilla is an extinct species of the extant genus Tiliqua, the blue-tongued skinks. It lived during the Miocene period. It was described in 1992 based on dentary fossils from Riversleigh Station, Queensland,[1][2] and is the smallest known species of Tiliqua.[3]