†family Palaeophiidae Lydekker 1888 (snake)

Reptilia - Squamata - Palaeophiidae

Alternative spelling: Palaeopheidae

Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1888. Notes on Tertiary Lacertilia and Ophidia. Geological Magazine 5:110-113

Parent taxon: Serpentes according to G. L. Georgalis 2023

See also Averianov 1997, Head et al. 2005, Holman and Case 1988, Holman et al. 1991, Kuhn 1946, Lydekker 1888, McCartney and Seiffert 2016, Parmley and DeVore 2005, Parmley and Reed 2003, Rage et al. 2008, Snetkov 2011, Snetkov and Bannikov 2010 and Zvonok and Snetkov 2012

Sister taxa: Alethinophidia, Botrophis, Cholophidia, Coluber steinheimensis, Colubridae, Coniophis, Coniophis cosgriffi, Coniophis dabiebus, Coniophis precedens, Diablophis, Dinilysia, Dipsadidae, Eophis, Goinophis, Hoffstetterella, Hoffstetterella brasiliensis, Hoplocephalus, Lunaophis, Madtsoiidae, Natricidae, Ophidion, Ophidioniscus, Ophidium, Portugalophis, Pseudonaja, Pythonoidea, Scolecophidia, Tomodon, Xiaophis

Subtaxa: Archaeophiinae Palaeopheinae Palaeophiinae Palaeophis Pterosphenus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Angola (3 collections), Ecuador (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Germany (1), India (5), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (6), Kyrgyzstan (1), Libya (1), Mali (3), Morocco (3), Myanmar (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Tajikistan (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (7), United States (30: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (4)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Denmark (1), United States (2: Mississippi, Virginia)

• Paleocene of Colombia (1), Kazakhstan (1), United States (4: New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Morocco (1), Niger (1), Sudan (1)

Total: 93 collections including 115 occurrences

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