Fossil fish from the platy limestones from the island of Primošten

However, not only fish were found in these limestones. In studying fossil fish, Gorjanović-Kramberger also described a new family of fossil lizards – Aigilosauridae – from the platy limestones of Hvar in his 1892 work “Aigialosaurus, novi gušter iz krednih škriljeva otoka Hvara s obzirom na opisane jur lacertide Komene i Hvara“ [Aigialosaurus, a new lizard from the Cretaceous shales of the island of Hvar, with regard to the described jur lacertide of Komena and Hvar]. He wrote the following, “The remains of well preserved lizards are a great rarity, and therefrom such a discovery is of unusual scientific value.”