†Lithophis Marsh 1871 (boa)
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Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1871. Description of some new fossil serpents, from the Tertiary deposits of Wyoming. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 1(5):322-329
Parent taxon: Boidae according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Carroll 1988 and Hay 1902
Sister taxa: Anilioides, Boinae, Cadurcoboa, Candoia, Chilabothrus, Dawsonophis, Erycinae, Eunectes, Hechtophis, Messelophis, Neurodromicus, Paraplatyspondylia, Python, Rageophis, Rieppelophis, Totlandophis, Tropidophis, Ungaliophiinae
Subtaxa: Lithophis sargenti
Type: Lithophis sargenti
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution: found only at Grizzly Buttes (Eocene of Wyoming)
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