Clade Caenophidia Hoffstetter 1939 (snake)

Reptilia - Squamata

Full reference: R. Hoffstetter. 1939. Contribution a l’étude des Elapidae actuels et fossiles et de l’ostéologie des ophidians. Archieves de la Muséum d'Historie Naturelle de Lyon 15:1-78

Parent taxon: Alethinophidia according to J. C. Fernicola and A. Albino 2012

See also Carroll 1988, Greene 1997, Kuhn 1966, Lee and Scanlon 2002, Vidal and Hedges 2002 and Wilcox et al. 2002

Sister taxa: Acrochordoidea, Afrotortrix, Aniliidae, Anilioidea, Cerberophis, Colombophis, Colubroidea, Cylindrophiidae, Henophidia, Itaboraiophis, Macrostomata, Paulacoutophis, Simoliopheoidea, Tuscahomaophis

Subtaxa: Acrochordidae Russellophiidae

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Greece (4 collections)

• Miocene of Greece (2), India (2), Nepal (3), Thailand (1)

• Eocene of Egypt (1), France (4), India (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Brazil (1)

• Cretaceous of Sudan (2)

Total: 23 collections including 26 occurrences

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