Ophisaurus Daudin 1803 (glass lizard)

Reptilia - Squamata - Anguidae

Alternative spelling: Opheosaurus

Synonym: Propseudopus Hilgendorf 1883

Parent taxon: Ophisaurini according to M. L. Augé 2005

See also Böhme 2002, Böhme 2008, Böhme 2010, Carroll 1988, Cernansky et al. 2015, Cope 1875, Estes 1983, Frank and Ramus 1996, McDowell and Bogert 1954, Mors et al. 2000, Rage and Ford 1980, Sullivan 1987, Venczel and Stiuca 2008 and Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Ophisaurus acuminatus Ophisaurus apodus Ophisaurus attenuatus Ophisaurus canadensis Ophisaurus compressus Ophisaurus feifari Ophisaurus harti Ophisaurus holeci Ophisaurus koellikeri Ophisaurus robustus Ophisaurus roqueprunensis Ophisaurus spinari Ophisaurus ventralis

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Ecology: insectivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Croatia (1 collection), Greece (1), Hungary (6), Israel (1), Italy (4), United States (16: Florida, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas)

• Blancan of United States (1: Kansas)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Hungary (1)

• Pliocene of France (1), Hungary (3), Moldova (2), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Turkey (1)

• Miocene of Austria (5), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), the Czech Republic (2), France (3), Germany (24), Greece (4), Hungary (10), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (2), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (9), Switzerland (8), Turkey (6), Ukraine (3), United States (5: Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska)

• Neogene of Slovakia (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Turkey (1)

• Oligocene of Belgium (2), France (7), Germany (3), Turkey (1)

• Eocene of France (8), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Wyoming)

Total: 163 collections including 186 occurrences

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