Biology:Simoliophiidae
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Short description: Extinct family of snakes
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| Fossil of Eupodophis descouensi from the Museo di Storia Naturale, Milano | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Infraorder: | Alethinophidia |
| Family: | †Simoliophiidae Nopsca, 1925 |
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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.
References
- ↑ 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. PMID 25989795.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Paleobiology Database Pachyophiidae entry
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q1946105 entry
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