Nidophis
Extinct genus of reptile
Nidophis Temporal range: Maastrichtian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Nidophis insularis vertebrae (scale bar 1 mm) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | †Madtsoiidae |
Genus: | †Nidophis Vasile et al., 2013 |
Species: | †N. insularis |
Binomial name | |
†Nidophis insularis Vasile et al., 2013 |
Nidophis is an extinct genus of Madtsoiid snake that inhabited on Hațeg island in what is now Romania.[1][2][3] It was a small snake measuring 1 metre (3.3 ft) long.[4]
References
- ^ "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
- ^ Ştefan Vasile; Zoltán Csiki-Sava; Márton Venczel (September 2013). "A new madtsoiid snake from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, western Romania". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (5): 1100–1119. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.764882. ISSN 0272-4634. Wikidata Q29997837.
- ^ "Nidophis". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
- ^ Venczel, Márton; Vasile, Ştefan; Csiki-Sava, Zoltán (2015). "A Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake from Romania associated with a megaloolithid egg nest – Paleoecological inferences". Cretaceous Research. 55: 152–163. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.02.009.
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