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
Belongs to Solastella according to M. R. Stocker and E. C. Kirk 2016
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: TMM 41672-246, a partial skull (partial skull and articulated left mandibular ramus missing anterior portion of the premaxilla, right maxilla, right circumorbital elements, and right side of t). Its type locality is Purple Bench, which is in an Uintan terrestrial horizon in the Devil's Graveyard Formation of Texas.
Ecology: fossorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Purple Bench
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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