| Slavoia | |
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| ZPAL MgR-I/8, the holotype specimen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | †Slavoiidae |
| Genus: | †Slavoia Sulimski, 1984 |
| Type species | |
| †Slavoia darevskii Sulimski, 1984
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Slavoia is an extinct genus of lizard from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia (Dzunbain Formation[1]), and Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan (Bostobe Formation[2]) and Mongolia (Barun Goyot Formation and Djadochta Formation).
There is only a single species S. darevskii,[3] and Slavoia has been suggested to be the oldest known relative of amphisbaenians.
- ^ Alifanov V. R. (2000) The fossil record of Cretaceous lizards from Mongolia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 368-389
- ^ Kordikova, E. G.; Polly, P. D.; Alifanov, V. A.; Roček, Z.; Gunnell, G. F.; Averianov, A. O. (March 2001). "Small vertebrates from the late Cretaceous and early Tertiary of the northeastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan". Journal of Paleontology. 75 (2): 390–400. doi:10.1017/s0022336000018187. ISSN 0022-3360.
- ^ Sulimski, A. (1984). A new Cretaceous scincomorph lizard from Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica 46:143-155