New lizard groups of the middle saurocene

One of these groups are the dinoptiles. These lizards are descendants of the sprintiles, which are a group of lizards with the ability to run on two legs. However, they walked on four legs. The dinoptiles are different from the first sprintiles because dinoptiles are endothermic, they have a bigger size, they have only three digits and they can now run and walk on two legs, this means dinoptiles are bipedal. These lizards can reach sizes of 50 centimeters.

Dinoptiles are now the top predators of the terrasaurian forests, but other species of lizards have appeared. The sneks are a clade of lizards that have lost all their limbs for burrowing on the soil, they mostly eat insects and small lizards that they hunt by waiting paciently until the prey comes near. They have evolved from the noodlesaurs, which are long bodied lizards. Sneks can reach sizes of 70 centimeters.

The next group of lizards are descendants of the branchtiles, a group of lizards which lived on the trees. The best way to move from one tree to another tree is to glide, but millions of years later, branchtiles evolved powered flight, an adaptation seen on many clades on Earth. Kitesaurs are endothermic lizards that can reach sizes of 15 centimeters.

While these species of lizards have a small size, there is a group of lizards that became bigger because of the empty megafaunal niches and the abundance of food. These are the slowzards, these big lizards evolved from the greatzards. They mainly eat grass, fruit, insects and rarely small lizards. These lizards have four digits. Slowzards can reach sizes of 1 meter.

After 15 million years of evolution, the iberian common lizard (Podarcis hispanicus) evolved into numerous groups and species. The new lizard groups are so different from each other now that they don´t seem to descend from the iberian common lizard.