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Palaeophiidae

Synonyms: Palaeopheidae; Palaeophidae

Wikipedia Abstract

Palaeophiidae is an extinct family of marine snake belonging to the superfamily Alethinophidia. Species within this genus lived from the Cretaceous period to the Eocene epoch, approximately from 99.7 to 33.9 million years ago.
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Genus

Archaeophis (1)
Palaeophis (20)
Pterosphenus (5)

(...) = Species count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0