Xenopeltis

Zaher, Hussam & Scanferla, Carlos Agustín, 2012, The skull of the Upper Cretaceous snake Dinilysia patagonica Smith-Woodward, 1901, and its phylogenetic position revisited, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (1), pp. 194-238 : 237

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00755.x

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D2C879F-9559-FF8F-3001-F92DFC33FE5C

treatment provided by

Marcus

scientific name

Xenopeltis
status

 

( XENOPELTIS + CLADE 12)

23 (0 → 1) – prefrontal articulates with the frontal anterolaterally (0.500).

24 (0 → 1) – outer orbital (lateral) margin of the prefrontal is positioned vertically (0.500).

46 (0 → 1) – ascending process of the maxilla absent (1.00).

67 (0 → 1) – quadrate ramus of pterygoid blade-like and with a distinct longitudinal groove for the insertion of the muscle protractor pterygoidei (1.00).

112 (0 → 1) – posteroventral process of coronoid absent (1.00).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Xenopeltidae

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