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Has anyone else read about this? I can only find the abstract. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03115518.2012.715326

Is named "Tiliqua laticephala" and a google search brings up some more info but not much
*edited scotts1au*

Looks like you have to pay to access the whole paper.

I can check at work tomorrow. If I can't access it, I can ILL it. ILL takes a couple of days but I can get it.

You might also look up T.pusila if interested.

I have no idea why UD has access to this journal but it does. The file is too big for the site. Edit: I attached it as a zip file so anyone can download and unzip it. It is a pdf. If you have a problem with it and you want to access it, just pm me your email and I can send it off.

I think that the most definite part of the study of the evolution of tiliqua is proof that they evolved to their current development in Australia, not elsewhere. This means that T.gigas etc evolved as a result of radiation of animals from Australia (most likely from T.scincoides, or a common ancestor - probably something that looked like a modern T.adelaidensis ), not the other way around.

There used to be some stuff on the net by Glenn Shae which looked at statistical analysis of alignments of genera based on fossil characteristics etc and the split between Egernia and Tiliqua dating back something like 16 million years.