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Ophisaurus (glass lizard)

Reptilia - Anguidae

Taxonomy

Ophisaurus was named by Daudin (1803). It is extant.

It was assigned to Gerrhonotinae by McDowell and Bogert (1954); to Ophisaurini by Augé (2005); to Anguidae by Cope (1875), Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996), Mors et al. (2000), Böhme (2008), Venczel and Stiuca (2008), Böhme (2010); and to Anguinae by Rage and Ford (1980), Estes (1983), Sullivan (1987), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014), Cernansky et al. (2015).

Species

O. acuminatus, O. apodus, O. attenuatus, O. canadensis, O. compressus, O. feifari, O. harti, O. holeci, O. koellikeri, O. robustus, O. roqueprunensis, O. spinari, O. ventralis

Species lacking formal opinion data

O. fejfari, O. gracilis, O. intermedius

Synonyms

Propseudopus was named by Hilgendorf (1883). It is not extant. Its type is Indolyrocephalus panchetensis.

It was synonymized subjectively with Ophisaurus by McDowell and Bogert (1954); it was synonymized objectively with Pseudopus by Böhme (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1803	Ophisaurus Daudin
1875	Opheosaurus Cope p. 46
1883	Propseudopus Hilgendorf p. 139
1954	Ophisaurus McDowell and Bogert p. 130
1980	Ophisaurus Rage and Ford p. 50
1983	Ophisaurus Estes
1987	Ophisaurus Sullivan p. 131
1988	Ophisaurus Carroll
1996	Ophisaurus Frank and Ramus
2000	Ophisaurus Mors et al. p. 151
2005	Ophisaurus Augé
2008	Ophisaurus Böhme p. 169
2008	Ophisaurus Venczel and Stiuca p. 753 figs. 13A, B
2010	Ophisaurus Böhme p. 24
2014	Ophisaurus Vianey-Liaud et al. p. 573
2015	Ophisaurus Cernansky et al. p. 107

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
—	Squamata	()
—	Anguimorpha	(Fürbringer 1900)
—	Anguiformes	(Bonaparte 1831)
superfamily	Anguioidea	Fitzinger 1826
family	Anguidae	Gray 1825
subfamily	Anguinae	Gray 1825
tribe	Ophisaurini
genus	Ophisaurus	Daudin 1803

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Ophisaurus Daudin 1803 [glass lizard]

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†Ophisaurus acuminatus Jorg 1965

Ophisaurus apodus Pallas 1775 [Armored glass lizard]

Ophisaurus attenuatus Cope 1880 [Slender glass lizard]

†Ophisaurus canadensis Holman 1970

Ophisaurus compressus Cope 1900 [island glass lizard]

†Ophisaurus feifari Klembara 1979

Ophisaurus harti Boulenger 1899 [Hart's glass lizard]

†Ophisaurus holeci Klembara 2015

Ophisaurus koellikeri Gunther 1873 [Koelliker's glass lizard]

†Ophisaurus robustus Klembara 1979

†Ophisaurus roqueprunensis Auge 1992

†Ophisaurus spinari Klembara 1979

Ophisaurus ventralis Linnaeus 1766 [eastern glass lizard]

Invalid names: Propseudopus Hilgendorf 1883 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Diet:

insectivoref

Diet 2:

carnivoref

Created:

2005-09-05 19:41:37

Modified:

2005-09-23 16:25:38

Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Behler and King 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Lostcabinian to the top of the Holocene or 54.90000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 50.5 Ma

Collections (163 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oldest occurrences
MP 8 + 9	56.0 - 48.07	France (Picardie)	Ophisaurus sp. (84997)
Lostcabinian	54.9 - 50.5	USA (Wyoming)	Ophisaurus sp. (15917)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt)	Ophisaurus gracilis, Ophisaurus voigti (13322)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	France (Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region)	Ophisaurus sp. (12840)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.71 - 33.9	United Kingdom (England)	Ophisaurus sp. (38862)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.71 - 33.9	France (Quercy)	Ophisaurus sp. (12850)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	France (Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees region)	Ophisaurus sp. (12853)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	United Kingdom (England)	Ophisaurus sp. (194988)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	France (Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region)	Ophisaurus sp. (12841 12843 12849 12852)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	Germany	Ophisaurus sp. (36984)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	Turkey (Tekirdağ)	Ophisaurus sp. (31605)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	Belgium	Dopasia roqueprunensis (31748)
MP 23	33.9 - 27.3	France (Quercy)	Dopasia roqueprunensis (179147)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	Belgium (Brabant)	Dopasia roqueprunensis (75867)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	France	Ophisaurus sp. (183381)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	France	Ophisaurus sp. (60281)
MP 25	27.3 - 23.04	France (Quercy)	Dopasia roqueprunensis (36717)
MP 25	27.3 - 23.04	France	Dopasia roqueprunensis (60214)
MP 26	27.3 - 23.04	France (Gard)	Ophisaurus sp. (172927)
MP 28	27.3 - 23.04	France (Quercy)	Dopasia roqueprunensis (36712)