Palaeophiidae is an extinct family of marine snake within the infraorder Alethinophidia.
Palaeophiidae | |
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Fossil vertebrae of Palaeophis maghrebianus from Khouribga (Morocco) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Superfamily: | Acrochordoidea |
Family: | †Palaeophiidae Lydekker 1888 |
Species within this family lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Late Eocene, approximately from 70.6 to 33.9 million years ago.[1] Phylogenetic analysis has proposed them as being related to the extant file snakes (family Acrochordidae),[2] although these results have been disputed since[3] and new analysis show this relationship as poorly supported.[4]