Reptilia - Squamata - Anguidae
Alternative spelling: Anguininae
Parent taxon: Anguidae according to R. M. Sullivan 1987
See also Cernansky et al. 2015, Estes 1976, Estes 1983, Kuhn 1966, McDowell and Bogert 1954, Meszoely 1970 and Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Anniellinae, Bainguis, Barisia, Diploglossinae, Elgaria, Gerrhonotinae, Glyptosaurinae, Machaerosaurus, Odaxosaurinae, Odaxosaurus, Ophisauromimus, Rajaurisaurus, Xestops lentus, Xestops microdus, Xestops minutus, Xestops piercei
Subtaxa: Anguini Anguis Headonhillia Ophipseudopus Ophisaurini Ophisauriscus Parophisaurus Pseudopus Ragesaurus Smithosaurus
Ecology: insectivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Croatia (1), France (4), Germany (20), Greece (3), Hungary (7), Israel (3), Italy (7), the Netherlands (1), Poland (4), Romania (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (7), the United Kingdom (9), United States (16: Florida, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Blancan of United States (1: Kansas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Hungary (1)
• Pliocene of Austria (2), France (1), Germany (2), Greece (4), Hungary (6), Italy (2), Moldova (5), Morocco (1), Poland (4), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Turkey (2), Ukraine (5)
• MN 13 of Hungary (1), Ukraine (2)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Tennessee)
• Neogene of Slovakia (1)
• Miocene of Austria (6), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), the Czech Republic (5), France (4), Germany (39), Greece (7), Hungary (13), Italy (16), Kazakhstan (2), Moldova (5), Morocco (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (3), Spain (9), Switzerland (8), Turkey (12), Ukraine (8), United States (5: Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (2), France (20), Germany (5), Turkey (2), United States (12: Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Eocene to Miocene of France (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), France (30), Germany (3), Portugal (1), Spain (5), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (2: Virginia, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1)
Total: 377 collections including 532 occurrences