Paraxenophis

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Paraxenophis
Temporal range: Neogene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Paraxenophis
Species:
P. spanios
Binomial name
Paraxenophis spanios
Georgalis et. al., 2019

Paraxenophis is an extinct genus of colubrid that inhabited Greece during the Neogene period. It contains a single species, P. spanios. [1]

References

  1. Georgalis, Georgios; Villa, Andrea; Ivanov, Martin; Vasilyan, Davit; Delfino, Massimo (2019). "Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene locality of Maramena (Greece), the most diverse European herpetofauna at the Miocene/Pliocene transition boundary" (PDF). Palaeontologia Electronica. Coquina Press. doi: 10.26879/908 . ISSN   1935-3952.