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: Anguis, Headonhillia, Ophipseudopus, Ophisaurini, Ophisauriscus, Parophisaurus, Ragesaurus, Smithosaurus
Subtaxa: Dopasia Helvetisaurus Pseudopus
Ecology: insectivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Israel (2), Italy (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (2), Romania (1)
• Pliocene of Austria (2), Germany (2), Hungary (2), Italy (2), Moldova (5), Poland (3), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (5)
• MN 13 of Hungary (1), Ukraine (2)
• Miocene of Austria (2), the Czech Republic (4), France (2), Germany (19), Greece (1), Hungary (7), Italy (6), Moldova (2), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (2), Spain (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (7)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (17), Germany (2)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), France (27), Switzerland (1)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1)
Total: 146 collections including 165 occurrences