Reptilia - Squamata - Colubridae

Alternative combinations: Bascanion acuminatus, Zamenis acuminatus

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1899. Vertebrate remains from Port Kennedy bone deposits. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 11:193-286

Belongs to Coluber according to C. W. Gilmore 1938

See also Hay 1902, Hay 1930 and Rage 1984

Sister taxa: Coluber beggiatoi, Coluber cadurci, Coluber caspioides, Coluber caspius, Coluber constrictor, Coluber dolnicensis, Coluber fossilis, Coluber freybergi, Coluber gervaisii, Coluber hungaricus, Coluber lafonti, Coluber lobsingensis, Coluber merkurensis, Coluber ombonii, Coluber planicarinatus, Coluber plioagellus, Coluber pouchetii, Coluber robertmertensi, Coluber suevicus, Coluber viridiflavus

Type specimen: Lost., a partial skeleton (Consists of fractured skull and 25 ant. thoracic vertebrae). Its type locality is Port Kennedy Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Pennsylvania.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Port Kennedy Cave

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