“…We here describe lizard assemblages, which recently have been collected from the middle Miocene Palasava and the late Miocene Tapar localities of Kutch, Gujarat. Although this region is well known for its fossil mammals and other vertebrate fauna (Wynne, 1872;Lydekker, 1876Lydekker, , 1880Prasad, 1962Prasad, , 1964Prasad, , 1967Sahni and Mishra, 1975;Thewissen and Bajpai, 2009;Bajpai et al, 2010;Bhandari et al, 2010Bhandari et al, , 2015Bhandari et al, , 2018Patnaik et al, 2014;Singh et al, 2019Singh et al, , 2020Kapur et al, 2021;Sharma et al, 2021), very little is known about the fossil squamates of the region-only several fossil snakes have been reported previously (Head et al, 2007;Rage et al, 2008;Kapur et al, 2021). However, India has an immense diversity of herpetofauna today, with 801 reptile species contributing to its recognition as a mega-diverse country and one of the global biodiversity hotspots (e.g., Myers et al, 2000;Palot, 2015;Uetz et al, 2021).…”