Subfamily Tropidophiinae Cope 1894 (boa)

Reptilia - Squamata - Boidae

Alternative spellings: Tropidopheinae, Tropidophinae

Parent taxon: Boidae according to O. W. M. Kuhn 1966

See also Cernansky et al. 2015, Holman 2000 and Szyndlar et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Boinae, Cadurcoboa, Candoia, Charina, Chilabothrus, Daunophis, Dawsonophis, Erycinae, Eunectes, Hechtophis, Lithophis, Messelophis, Neurodromicus, Palaeopython, Paleryx, Paraplatyspondylia, Plesiotortrix, Python, Rageophis, Rieppelophis, Totlandophis, Tropidophis, Ungaliophiinae

Subtaxa: Falseryx Rottophis

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Czech Republic (1 collection), Germany (5), Spain (1), Turkey (3)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Turkey (1)

• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Germany (2)

Total: 14 collections including 16 occurrences

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