Lithophis Marsh 1871 (boa)

Reptilia - Squamata - Boidae

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1871. Description of some new fossil serpents, from the Tertiary deposits of Wyoming. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 1(5):322-329

Parent taxon: Boidae according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Carroll 1988 and Hay 1902

Sister taxa: Boinae, Cadurcoboa, Candoia, Charina, Chilabothrus, Daunophis, Dawsonophis, Erycinae, Eunectes, Hechtophis, Messelophis, Neurodromicus, Palaeopython, Paleryx, Paraplatyspondylia, Plesiotortrix, Python, Rageophis, Rieppelophis, Totlandophis, Tropidophiinae, Tropidophis, Ungaliophiinae

Subtaxa: Lithophis sargenti

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Type: Lithophis sargenti

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Grizzly Buttes (Eocene of Wyoming)

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