Reptilia - Squamata - Madtsoiidae
Alternative spellings: Madtsoiinae, Madtsoinae
Full reference: R. Hoffstetter. 1961. Noveaux restes d’un serpent Boidé (Madtsoia madagascariensis nov. sp.) dans le Crétacé Supérieur de Madagascar. Bulletin du Muséum national d’Historie naturelle, Série 2, Paris (33)152-160
Parent taxon: Serpentes according to N. R. Longrich et al. 2012
See also Albino 2000, Augé and Rage 2006, Gómez et al. 2019, Hoffstetter 1961, Hoffstetter 1961, Kuhn 1966, Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004, McCartney and Seiffert 2016, McDowell 1987, Rage 1984, Rage et al. 2008 and Wilson et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Alethinophidia, Botrophis, Cheilophis, Cholophidia, Coluber steinheimensis, Colubridae, Coniophis, Coniophis cosgriffi, Coniophis dabiebus, Coniophis precedens, Diablophis, Dinilysia, Dinilysiidae, Dipsadidae, Eophis, Goinophis, Hoffstetterella, Hoffstetterella brasiliensis, Hoplocephalus, Lunaophis, Natricidae, Ophidion, Ophidioniscus, Ophidium, Ophidium, Palaeophiidae, Portugalophis, Pseudonaja, Pythonoidea, Scolecophidia, Tomodon, Xiaophis
Subtaxa: Adinophis Alamitophis Eomadtsoia Gigantophis Herensugea Madtsoia Menarana Nanowana Nidophis Patagoniophis Platyspondylophis Powellophis Rionegrophis Vasuki Wonambi Yurlunggur
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (9 collections)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (11)
• Deseadan of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), India (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (3), Australia (1), Egypt (2), India (4), Libya (2), Morocco (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Brazil (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Bolivia (1), Morocco (1), Pakistan (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (13), Bolivia (1), France (1), India (3), Madagascar (19), Morocco (2), Niger (1), Romania (4), Spain (3), Sudan (2)
Total: 93 collections including 113 occurrences