Reptilia - Squamata - Anguidae

Synonym: Pseudopus rugosus Klembara 2015 [replaced name]

Full reference: J. Klembara and M. Rummel. 2018. New material of Ophisaurus, Anguis and Pseudopus (Squamata, Anguidae, Anguinae) from the Miocene of the Czech Republic and Germany and systematic revision and palaeobiogeography of the Cenozoic Anguinae. Geological Magazine 155(1):20-44

Belongs to Pseudopus according to J. Klembara and M. Rummel 2018

See also Klembara 2015

Sister taxa: Pseudopus ahnikoviensis, Pseudopus apodus, Pseudopus laurillardi, Pseudopus moguntinus, Pseudopus pannonicus

Type specimens:

• Pseudopus confertus: NMP Pv 10028, a partial skull (frontal). Its type locality is Merkur-North, which is in an Orleanian fluvial-lacustrine marl/coal in the Most Formation of the Czech Republic.
• Pseudopus rugosus: NMP Pv 10028, a partial skull (frontal). Its type locality is Merkur-North, which is in an Orleanian fluvial-lacustrine marl/coal in the Most Formation of the Czech Republic.

Ecology: insectivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Merkur-North

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