Reptilia - Squamata - Anguidae
Full reference: M. L. Augé. 2005. Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 192:1-369
Parent taxon: Anguinae according to M. L. Augé 2005
Sister taxa: Anguini, Anguis, Headonhillia, Ophipseudopus, Ophisauriscus, Parophisaurus, Pseudopus, Ragesaurus, Smithosaurus
Subtaxa: Ophisaurus
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