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Palaeophis maghrebianus
Taxonomy
Palaeophis maghrebianus was named by Arambourg (1952). Its type specimen is MNHN APH 5, a set of vertebrae (a single trunk vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Djemaïa, which is in a Ypresian shallow subtidal phosphorite in Morocco.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1952 | Palaeophis maghrebianus Arambourg p. 291 fig. 58 |
| 2013 | Palaeophis maghrebianus Houssaye et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Palaeophis maghrebianus Arambourg 1952
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| A. Houssaye et al. 2013 | Snake referred to the Palaeophiidae on the basis of the following assemblage of characters: pte- rapophyses present, axis of the cotyle–condyle system hor- izontal, position of the paradiapophyses relatively low and hypapophyses not restricted to cervical vertebrae. Assigned to the Palaeophiinae on account of the presence of at least one hypapophysis on all precloacal, the presence of a sec- ond small hypapophysis under the cotyle in anterior ver- tebrae, the presence of pterapophyses through the entire precloacal series and the marked projection of the paradi- apophyses below the ventral border of the centrum. |