Family Tropidophiidae Cope 1894 (dwarf boa)
Reptilia - Squamata - Tropidophiidae
Parent taxon: Macrostomata according to N. R. Longrich et al. 2012
See also Augé and Rage 2006, Cernansky et al. 2015, Szyndlar et al. 2008, Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014, Vidal and Hedges 2002 and Wilcox et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Amaru, Booidea, Kataria, Loxocemus, Pachyrhachis, Podophis, Xenopeltis
Subtaxa: Dunnophis Platyspondylia Szyndlaria
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Turks and Caicos Islands (1 collection)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of France (10), Germany (2)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), France (15), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (4: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Bolivia (1), Morocco (1)
Total: 41 collections including 46 occurrences