Nidophis
Temporal range:
Nidophis insularis vertebrae (scale bar 1 mm)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: †Madtsoiidae
Genus: †Nidophis
Vasile et al., 2013
Species:
†N. insularis
Binomial name
†Nidophis insularis
Vasile et al., 2013

Nidophis is an extinct genus of Madtsoiid snake that inhabited on Hațeg island in what is now Romania.[1][2][3] It was a small snake measuring 1 metre (3.3 ft) long.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  2. ↑ Ştefan Vasile; Zoltán Csiki-Sava; Márton Venczel (September 2013). "A new madtsoiid snake from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, western Romania". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (5): 1100–1119. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.764882. ISSN 0272-4634. Wikidata Q29997837.
  3. ↑ "Nidophis". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  4. ↑ Venczel, Márton; Vasile, Ştefan; Csiki-Sava, Zoltán (2015). "A Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake from Romania associated with a megaloolithid egg nest – Paleoecological inferences". Cretaceous Research. 55: 152–163. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.02.009.


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