Simoliophiidae Temporal range: Cenomanian, 99.6–93.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Fossil of Eupodophis descouensi from the Museo di Storia Naturale, Milano
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Infraorder:	Alethinophidia
Family:	†Simoliophiidae Nopsca, 1925
Genera
Simoliophis Sauvage, 1880 (type) Eupodophis Rage et al., 2000 Haasiophis Tchernov et al., 2000 Mesophis Bolkay, 1925 Pachyophis Nopcsa, 1923 Pachyrhachis Haas, 1979
Synonyms
Pachyophidae Nopcsa, 1923 Pachyophiidae (Nopcsa, 1923) Pachyrhachidae Haas, 1979

Simoliophiidae is an extinct family of limbed Tethyan marine snakes of the order Squamata.^[1]^[2]^[3] The name Pachyophiidae has also been used for this group,^[2]^[3] but Simoliophiidae has priority.

References

^ Hsiang, Allison Y; Field, Daniel J; Webster, Timothy H; Behlke, Adam DB; Davis, Matthew B; Racicot, Rachel A; Gauthier, Jacques A (20 May 2015). "The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15 (1): 87. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0358-5. PMC 4438441. PMID 25989795.
^ ^a ^b The Paleobiology Database Pachyophiidae entry
^ ^a ^b Lee, M. S. Y.; Caldwell, M. W.; Scanlon, J. D. (1999). "A second primitive marine snake: Pachyophis woodwardi from the Cretaceous of Bosnia-Herzegovina". Journal of Zoology, London. 248 (4): 509–520. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb01050.x.