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Palaeophis
Taxonomy
Palaeophis was named by Owen (1841) [Sepkoski's age data: K Maes T Eo-m-l Sepkoski's reference number: 505]. It is not extant. Its type is Palaeophis toliapicus. It is the type genus of Palaeophidae. It was considered monophyletic by Bajpai and Head (2008).
It was assigned to Ophidia by Owen (1842), d'Orbigny (1849), Cope (1868) and Cope (1872); to Palaeophidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Kuhn (1966) and Holman (1982); to Palaeopheidae by Lydekker (1888), Weems (1985) and Holman and Case (1988); to Squamata by Sepkoski (2002); to Palaeopheinae by Holman et al. (1991), Parmley and Reed (2003), Parmley and DeVore (2005) and Bajpai and Head (2008); to Palaeophiinae by Rage et al. (2003), Snetkov and Bannikov (2010), Snetkov (2011), Zvonok and Snetkov (2012), Kristensen et al. (2012) and Houssaye et al. (2013); and to Palaeophiidae by Rage et al. (2008), Georgalis et al. (2020) and Georgalis et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Ophidia by Owen (1842), d'Orbigny (1849), Cope (1868) and Cope (1872); to Palaeophidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Kuhn (1966) and Holman (1982); to Palaeopheidae by Lydekker (1888), Weems (1985) and Holman and Case (1988); to Squamata by Sepkoski (2002); to Palaeopheinae by Holman et al. (1991), Parmley and Reed (2003), Parmley and DeVore (2005) and Bajpai and Head (2008); to Palaeophiinae by Rage et al. (2003), Snetkov and Bannikov (2010), Snetkov (2011), Zvonok and Snetkov (2012), Kristensen et al. (2012) and Houssaye et al. (2013); and to Palaeophiidae by Rage et al. (2008), Georgalis et al. (2020) and Georgalis et al. (2021).
Species
Nessovophis zhylga, P. africanus, P. casei, P. colossaeus, P. ferganicus, P. grandis, P. halidanus, P. littoralis, P. longus, P. maghrebianus, P. nessovi (syn. P. udovichenkoi), P. oweni, P. porcatus, P. tamdy, P. toliapicus (type species), P. typhaeus, P. vastaniensis, P. virginianus, Paleophis virginianus, Vialovophis zhylan
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1841 | Palaeophis Owen |
| 1842 | Palaeophis Owen p. 180 |
| 1849 | Palaeophis d'Orbigny p. 213 |
| 1868 | Palaeophis Cope p. 234 |
| 1869 | Dinophis Marsh p. 400 |
| 1872 | Palaeophis Cope p. 14 |
| 1888 | Palaeophis Lydekker |
| 1902 | Palaeophis Hay p. 479 |
| 1930 | Palaeophis Hay p. 267 |
| 1966 | Palaeophis Kuhn p. 63 |
| 1982 | Palaeophis Holman |
| 1984 | Vialovophis Nessov |
| 1985 | Paleophis Weems |
| 1988 | Palaeophis Holman and Case p. 331 |
| 1991 | Palaeophis Holman et al. p. 4 |
| 1997 | Nessovophis Averianov p. 130 fig. 2 |
| 2002 | Paleophis Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Palaeophis Parmley and Reed p. 224 |
| 2003 | Palaeophis Rage et al. |
| 2005 | Palaeophis Parmley and DeVore p. 708 |
| 2008 | Palaeophis Bajpai and Head |
| 2008 | Palaeophis Rage et al. p. 392 |
| 2010 | Palaeophis Snetkov and Bannikov p. 698 |
| 2011 | Palaeophis Snetkov p. 306 |
| 2012 | Palaeophis Kristensen et al. |
| 2012 | Palaeophis Zvonok and Snetkov p. 394 |
| 2013 | Palaeophis Houssaye et al. |
| 2020 | Palaeophis Georgalis et al. |
| 2021 | Palaeophis Georgalis et al. p. 4 |
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G. †Palaeophis Owen 1841
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†Palaeophis africanus Andrews 1924
†Palaeophis casei Holman 1982
†Palaeophis colossaeus Rage 1983
†Palaeophis ferganicus Averianov 1997
†Palaeophis grandis Marsh 1869
†Palaeophis halidanus Cope 1868
†Palaeophis littoralis Cope 1847
†Palaeophis longus Owen 1849
†Palaeophis maghrebianus Arambourg 1952
†Palaeophis nessovi Averianov 1997
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Invalid names: Palaeophis udovichenkoi Averianov 1997 [synonym]
†Palaeophis oweni de Zigno 1881
†Palaeophis porcatus Owen 1849
†Palaeophis tamdy Averianov 1997
†Palaeophis toliapicus Owen 1841
†Palaeophis typhaeus Owen 1850
†Palaeophis vastaniensis Bajpai and Head 2008
†Palaeophis virginianus Lynn 1934
†Paleophis virginianus Lynn 1934
Invalid names: Dinophis Marsh 1869 [synonym], Nessovophis Averianov 1997 [synonym], Vialovophis Nessov 1984 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available