Pseudopus Merrem 1820 (legless lizard)

Reptilia - Squamata - Anguidae

Full reference: B. Merrem. 1820. Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien

Parent taxon: Anguinae according to G. Georgalis et al. 2024

See also Augé 2005, Böhme 2010, Cernansky et al. 2015, Klembara 2012, McDowell and Bogert 1954, Sullivan 1987 and Villa et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Anguini, Anguis, Headonhillia, Ophipseudopus, Ophisaurini, Ophisauriscus, Parophisaurus, Ragesaurus, Smithosaurus

Subtaxa: Pseudopus ahnikoviensis Pseudopus apodus Pseudopus confertus Pseudopus laurillardi Pseudopus moguntinus Pseudopus pannonicus

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Ecology: insectivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Israel (2), Italy (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (2), Romania (1)

• Villafranchian of Italy (1)

• MN 16 of Austria (1), Poland (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (2)

• Pliocene of Armenia (2), Austria (1), Germany (2), Greece (1), Hungary (2), Moldova (4), Poland (2), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (4)

• MN 13 of Hungary (1), Ukraine (2)

• Turolian of Greece (1), Hungary (3), Italy (5), Ukraine (1)

• Miocene of Austria (2), Czechia (4), France (2), Germany (19), Hungary (4), Italy (1), Moldova (2), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia (3), Slovakia (2), Spain (1), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (6)

• Oligocene of Germany (2)

Total: 99 collections including 110 occurrences

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