Paracoluber storeri Holman 1970 (colubrid snake)

Reptilia - Squamata - Colubridae

Full reference: J. A. Holman. 1970. Herpetofauna of the Wood Mountain Formation (Upper Miocene) of Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 7:1317-1325

Belongs to Paracoluber according to D. Parmley and K. B. Hunter 2010

See also Holman 1970 and Parmley and Holman 1995

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ROM 7707, a set of vertebrae (single lumbar vertebra). Its type locality is Kleinfelder Farm, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in the Wood Mountain Formation of Canada.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Nebraska collection)

• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (2: Nebraska, Wyoming)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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