Reptilia - Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Full reference: C. Arambourg. 1952. Les vertébrés fossiles des gisments de phosphates (Maroc- Algérie- Tunisie). Service Geologique du Maroc, Notes et Mémoires 92:1-372
Belongs to Palaeophis according to A. Houssaye et al. 2013
See also Arambourg 1952 and Rage 1984
Sister taxa: Palaeophis africanus, Palaeophis casei, Palaeophis colossaeus, Palaeophis ferganicus, Palaeophis giganteus, Palaeophis grandis, Palaeophis halidanus, Palaeophis littoralis, Palaeophis longus, Palaeophis nessovi, Palaeophis oweni, Palaeophis porcatus, Palaeophis tamdy, Palaeophis toliapicus, Palaeophis typhaeus, Palaeophis vastaniensis, Palaeophis virginianus, Paleophis virginianus, Nessovophis zhylga, Vialovophis zhylan
Type specimen: MNHN APH 5, a set of vertebrae (a single trunk vertebra). Its type locality is Djemaïa, which is in a Ypresian shallow subtidal phosphorite in Morocco.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Morocco (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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