Solastella Stocker and Kirk 2016 (worm lizard)

Reptilia - Squamata - Rhineuridae

Full reference: M. R. Stocker and E. C. Kirk. 2016. The first amphisbaenians from Texas, with notes on other squamates from the middle Eocene Purple Bench locality. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e1094081)1-15

Parent taxon: Rhineuridae according to M. R. Stocker and E. C. Kirk 2016

Sister taxa: Archaerhineura, Dyticonastis, Hadrorhineura, Jepsibaena, Lestophis, Macrorhineura, Oligorhineura, Ototriton, Plesiorhineura, Protorhineura, Rhineura, Spathorhynchus

Subtaxa: Solastella cookei

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Type: Solastella cookei

Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Purple Bench (Eocene of Texas)

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