Reptilia - Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Alternative spelling: Palaeopheidae
Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1888. Notes on Tertiary Lacertilia and Ophidia. Geological Magazine 5:110-113
Parent taxon: Serpentes according to F. Aniny et al. 2024
See also Averianov 1997, Garberoglio et al. 2024, Georgalis 2023, Head et al. 2005, Holman and Case 1988, Holman et al. 1991, Kuhn 1946, Lydekker 1888, McCartney and Seiffert 2016, Parmley and DeVore 2005, Parmley and Reed 2003, Rage 1984, Rage et al. 2008, Snetkov 2011, Snetkov and Bannikov 2010 and Zvonok and Snetkov 2012
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, Madtsoiidae, Natricidae, Ophidion, Ophidioniscus, Ophidium, Ophidium, Portugalophis, Pseudonaja, Pythonoidea, Scolecophidia, Tomodon, Xiaophis
Subtaxa: Archaeophiinae Palaeopheinae Palaeophiinae Palaeophis Pterosphenus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Angola (3 collections), Ecuador (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Germany (1), India (5), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (6), Kyrgyzstan (1), Libya (1), Mali (3), Morocco (3), Myanmar (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Tajikistan (1), Togo (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (7), United States (30: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (5)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Denmark (1), United States (2: Mississippi, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Colombia (1), Kazakhstan (1), United States (3: New Jersey, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Morocco (1), Niger (1), Sudan (1)
Total: 95 collections including 117 occurrences