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Approximately 10 million years is an inferred Late Miocene split estimate, not a directly observed divergence date. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: A new species of Heremites Gray, 1845 (Squamata, Scincidae) from the transboundary Hindu Kush foothills · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:4d683e39541db7ebf43ca0a047be20525eb9ae67996c8564a0d0f146828a4c11

The Hindu Kush lineage is inferred to be deeply divergent ... with an estimated split in the Late Miocene at approximately 10 Mya.