Reptilia - Squamata - Pachyophidae
Alternative combination: Podophis descouensi
Full reference: J.-C. Rage and F. Escuillié. 2000. Un nouveau serpent bipède du Cénomanien (Crétacé). Implications phylétiques. Comptes Rendus à l’ Académie des Sciences, Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 330:513-520
Belongs to Eupodophis according to J.-C. Rage and F. Escuillié 2001
See also Palci et al. 2013 and Rage and Escuillié 2000
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Rh-E.F. 9001, 9002, 9003, a skeleton (almost complete skeleton). Its type locality is en Nammoûra, upper quarry (unit 3b), which is in a Cenomanian/Cenomanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal wackestone in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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