Superfamily Colubroidea Oppel 1811 (snake)

Reptilia - Squamata

Full reference: M. Oppel. 1811. Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien als Prodom einer Naturgeschichte Derselben. Joseph Lindauer, München xii-86

Parent taxon: Alethinophidia according to T. Ikeda et al. 2016

See also Carroll 1988, Cope 1871, Cope 1875, Fernicola and Albino 2012, Kuhn 1966, Longrich et al. 2012, Rage et al. 2008, Smith 2013 and Wilcox et al. 2002

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

Subtaxa: Crotalidae Elapidae Headonophis Lamprophiidae Procerophis Rhabdosomidae Russellopheidae Vectophis Viperidae

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Type: Coluber

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (9 collections), Belgium (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), China (2), Colombia (1), France (9), Georgia (2), Germany (2), Greece (4), Israel (2), Japan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (1), the Philippines (3), Poland (9), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (3), Spain (14), Tanzania (6), the United Kingdom (5), United States (79: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia)

• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (8: Kansas, Nebraska, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Italy (1), Venezuela (1)

• Pliocene of Armenia (1), Australia (1), China (2), France (1), Greece (2), Hungary (2), India (2), Italy (2), Kenya (1), Moldova (1), Morocco (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (9), Tanzania (3), Turkey (1), Ukraine (5)

• Montehermosan of Argentina (1)

• MN 13 of Hungary (1), Ukraine (3)

• Hemphillian of United States (7: Florida, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee)

• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Australia (8), Austria (4), Colombia (3), the Czech Republic (4), France (14), Georgia (1), Germany (20), Greece (3), Hungary (9), Italy (4), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (5), Morocco (2), Namibia (2), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (4), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (2), Spain (10), Switzerland (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (3), Ukraine (7), United States (10: Delaware, Florida, Nebraska, Texas, Wyoming)

• Harrisonian of United States (1: Nebraska)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), Peru (1), Tanzania (4), United States (1: Florida)

• Eocene of Algeria (1), Egypt (1), France (2), India (3), Myanmar (1), Namibia (1), the United Kingdom (4)

• Cretaceous of Sudan (1)

Total: 374 collections including 550 occurrences

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