†family Russellopheidae Rage 1978 (snake)
Reptilia - Squamata - Russellopheidae
Full reference: J.-C. Rage. 1978. L'origine des Colubroïdes et des Acrochordoïdes (Reptilia Serpentes). Comptes Rendus de l’Acade ́mie des Sci- ences, Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des plan`etes 286:595-597
Parent taxon: Colubroidea according to J.-C. Rage 1978
See also Carroll 1988, McCartney and Seiffert 2016, Rage 2008, Rage et al. 2008 and Rage and Werner 1999
Sister taxa: Crotalidae, Elapidae, Headonophis, Lamprophiidae, Procerophis, Rhabdosomidae, Vectophis, Viperidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Le Bretou (Eocene of France)