Simoliophiidae

Simoliophiidae
Temporal range: Mesozoic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Simoliophiidae

Simoliophiidae is an extinct family of limbed Tethyan marine snakes of the order Squamata.[1] The simoliophiidae occurred in the Cretaceous period. It is a big snake.


References

  1. Hsiang, Allison Y; Field, Daniel J; Webster, Timothy H; Behlke, Adam DB; Davis, Matthew B; Racicot, Rachel A; Gauthier, Jacques A (20 May 2015). "The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15 (1). doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0358-5.
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