Python europaeus
| Python europaeus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Pythonidae |
| Genus: | Python |
| Species: | †P. europaeus
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| †Python europaeus Szyndlar & Rage, 2003
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Python europaeus is an extinct python species. It lived during the early/middle miocene. The holotype is a single trunk vertebra found in France.[1]
Discovery and naming
Fossilized remains of Python europaeus were first reported in 1958 by French herpetologist Robert Hoffstetter, decades before the species was named, who published that python fossils had been found in the localities of Pont-Levoy, La Grive-Saint-Alban and Mont Ceindre (now known as Vieux Collonges) in France.[2] The material from Vieux Collonges would be mentioned in later works published in during the 1970s and 1980s, which refer to the material as an unnamed species of Python.[3][4][5][6] In 2001, the Vieux Collinges material, consisting of over 300 vertebrae and a palatine bone, was illustrated and redescribed in detail by Martin Ivanov, though he believed the incompleteness of the skull made it impossible to identify this material to the species level, and identified it only as a member of the genus Python.[7]
References
- ^ Schleip W.; O'Shea M. (2010). "Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution". ZooKeys (66): 29–79. doi:10.3897/zookeys.66.683. PMC 3088416. PMID 21594030.
- ^ Hoffstetter, Robert (1958). "Les Squamates (Sauriens et Serpents) du Miocène français". Compte Rendu du 83 Congres des Societes savantes de Paris et des Départements: 195–200.
- ^ R, Hoffstetter; J-C, Rage (1972). "Les Erycinae fossiles de france (Serpentes, Boidae) comprehension et histoire de la sous-famille". Annales de Paléontologie (Vertébrés). 58 (1): 81–129.
- ^ Thomas, H.; Sen, S.; Khan, M.; Battail, B.; Ligabue, G. (1982). "The Lower Miocene Fauna of Al-Sarrar (Eastern province, Saudi Arabia)". Atlal (Journal of Saudi Arabian Archaeology). 5: 109–136.
- ^ Demarcq, Gerard; Ballesio, Rolland; Rage, Jean-Claude; Guerin, Claude; Mein, Pierre; Meon, Henriette (1983-07-01). "Donnees paleoclimatiques du neogene de la Vallee du Rhone (France)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 42 (3): 247–272. doi:10.1016/0031-0182(83)90025-1. ISSN 0031-0182.
- ^ Seigel, Richard A.; Collins, Joseph T.; Novak, Susan S., eds. (1987). "Fossil history". Snakes: ecology and evolutionary biology. Caldwell, N.J: Blackburn Press. pp. 51–76. ISBN 978-1-930665-15-6.
- ^ Ivanov, Martin (2000). "Snakes of the lower/middle Miocene transition at Vieux Collonges (Rhône, France), with comments on the colonisation of western Europe by colubroids". Geodiversitas. 22 (4): 559–588. S2CID 126907224.
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