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Taxonomy
Ophisaurus was named by Daudin (1803). It is extant.
It was assigned to Gerrhonotinae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Ophisaurini by Augé (2005); to Anguidae by Cope (1875), Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996), Mors et al. (2000), Böhme (2008), Venczel and Stiuca (2008) and Böhme (2010); and to Anguinae by Rage and Ford (1980), Estes (1983), Sullivan (1987), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014) and Cernansky et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Gerrhonotinae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Ophisaurini by Augé (2005); to Anguidae by Cope (1875), Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996), Mors et al. (2000), Böhme (2008), Venczel and Stiuca (2008) and Böhme (2010); and to Anguinae by Rage and Ford (1980), Estes (1983), Sullivan (1987), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014) and Cernansky et al. (2015).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1803 | Ophisaurus Daudin |
| 1875 | Opheosaurus Cope p. 46 |
| 1883 | Propseudopus Hilgendorf p. 139 |
| 1954 | Ophisaurus McDowell and Bogert p. 130 |
| 1980 | Ophisaurus Rage and Ford p. 50 |
| 1983 | Ophisaurus Estes |
| 1987 | Ophisaurus Sullivan p. 131 |
| 1988 | Ophisaurus Carroll |
| 1996 | Ophisaurus Frank and Ramus |
| 2000 | Ophisaurus Mors et al. p. 151 |
| 2005 | Ophisaurus Augé |
| 2008 | Ophisaurus Böhme p. 169 |
| 2008 | Ophisaurus Venczel and Stiuca p. 753 figs. 13A, B |
| 2010 | Ophisaurus Böhme p. 24 |
| 2014 | Ophisaurus Vianey-Liaud et al. p. 573 |
| 2015 | Ophisaurus Cernansky et al. p. 107 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Ophisaurus Daudin 1803 [glass lizard]
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†Ophisaurus acuminatus Jorg 1965
Ophisaurus apodus Pallas 1775 [Armored glass lizard]
Ophisaurus attenuatus Cope 1880 [Slender glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus canadensis Holman 1970
Ophisaurus compressus Cope 1900 [island glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus feifari Klembara 1979
Ophisaurus harti Boulenger 1899 [Hart's glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus holeci Klembara 2015
Ophisaurus koellikeri Gunther 1873 [Koelliker's glass lizard]
†Ophisaurus robustus Klembara 1979
†Ophisaurus roqueprunensis Auge 1992
†Ophisaurus spinari Klembara 1979
Ophisaurus ventralis Linnaeus 1766 [eastern glass lizard]
Invalid names: Propseudopus Hilgendorf 1883 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Behler and King 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Lostcabinian to the top of the Holocene or 55.80000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 50.3 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 50.3 Ma
Collections (163 total)
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lostcabinian | USA (Wyoming) | Ophisaurus sp. (15917) | |
| MP 8 + 9 | France (Picardie) | Ophisaurus sp. (84997) | |
| Lutetian | Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) | Ophisaurus gracilis, Ophisaurus voigti (13322) | |
| Bartonian | France (Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region) | Ophisaurus sp. (12840) | |
| Priabonian | France (Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees region) | Ophisaurus sp. (12853) | |
| Priabonian | France (Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region) | Ophisaurus sp. (12841 12843 12849 12852) | |
| Priabonian | United Kingdom (England) | Ophisaurus sp. (194988) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | France (Quercy) | Ophisaurus sp. (12850) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | United Kingdom (England) | Ophisaurus sp. (38862) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Germany | Ophisaurus sp. (36984) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Turkey (Tekirdağ) | Ophisaurus sp. (31605) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Belgium | Dopasia roqueprunensis (31748) | |
| MP 23 | France (Quercy) | Dopasia roqueprunensis (179147) | |
| Rupelian | Belgium (Brabant) | Dopasia roqueprunensis (75867) | |
| Rupelian | France | Ophisaurus sp. (183381) | |
| MP 25 | France | Dopasia roqueprunensis (60214) | |
| MP 25 | France (Quercy) | Dopasia roqueprunensis (36717) | |
| MP 26 | France (Gard) | Ophisaurus sp. (172927) | |
| MP 28 | France (Quercy) | Dopasia roqueprunensis (36712) | |
| MP 28 - MP 30 | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | Ophisaurus sp. (59126) | |