Simoliophiidae

Simoliophiidae is an extinct family of limbed Tethyan marine snakes of the order Squamata.[1][2][3] The name Pachyophiidae has also been used for this group,[2][3] but Simoliophiidae has priority.

Simoliophiidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian, 99.6–93.5 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Infraorder: Alethinophidia
Family: †Simoliophiidae
Nopsca, 1925
Genera
  • Simoliophis Sauvage, 1880 (type)
  • Eupodophis
    Fossil of Eupodophis descouensi(an extinct snake) photo taken at Museo di Storia Naturale, Milano
    Rage et al., 2000
  • Haasiophis Tchernov et al., 2000
  • Mesophis Bolkay, 1925
  • Pachyophis Nopcsa, 1923
  • Pachyrhachis Haas, 1979
Synonyms
  • Pachyophidae Nopcsa, 1923
  • Pachyophiidae (Nopcsa, 1923)
  • Pachyrhachidae Haas, 1979

References
  1. Hsiang, Allison Y; Field, Daniel J; Webster, Timothy H; Behlke, Adam DB; Davis, Matthew B; Racicot, Rachel A; Gauthier, Jacques A (20 May 2015). "The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15 (1): 87. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0358-5. PMC 4438441. PMID 25989795.
  2. The Paleobiology Database Pachyophiidae entry
  3. Lee, M. S. Y.; Caldwell, M. W.; Scanlon, J. D. (1999). "A second primitive marine snake: Pachyophis woodwardi from the Cretaceous of Bosnia-Herzegovina". Journal of Zoology, London. 248 (4): 509–520. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb01050.x.


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