Reptilia - Squamata - Rhineuridae

Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1970. Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 8:165-82

Parent taxon: Rhineuridae according to R. Estes 1983

See also Carroll 1988 and Macdonald 1970

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

Subtaxa: Macrorhineura skinneri

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Type: Macrorhineura skinneri

Ecology: fossorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Sharps (SDSM V-541) (Oligocene of South Dakota)

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