Pachyophiidae
| Pachyophiidae Temporal range: 99.6–93.5Ma | |
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| Fossil specimen of Pachyophis woodwardi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | Ophidia |
| Family: | †Pachyophiidae Nopcsa, 1923[2] |
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Pachyophiidae is an extinct family of snakes which lived during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.[1] The family was erected in 1923 by F. Nopcsa as "Pachyophiidae",[2] which was corrected to the current name Pachyophiidae in 1999 by M. Lee et al.[3]
Taxonomy
- Pachyophiidae
- Haasiophis
- Haasiophis terrasanctus
- Mesophis
- Mesophis nopcsai
- Pachyophis
- Pachyophis woodwardi
- Pachyrhachis
- Pachyrhachis problematicus
- Simoliophis
- Simoliophis libycus
- Haasiophis
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Paleobiology Database Pachyophiidae entry
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nopcsa, F. 1923. "Eidolosaurus und Pachyophis, Zwei neue Neocom-Reptilien". Palaeontographica (55)97-154
- ↑ Lee, M. S. Y., Caldwell, M. W. & Scanlon, J. D.. 1999. "A second primitive marine snake: Pachyophis woodwardi from the Cretaceous of Bosnia-Herzegovina". Journal of Zoology, London (248)509-520
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