This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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Fitzinger, 1826
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Anguioidea
Alternative Name
scientific
Anguinoidea
Ref.: S. B. McDowell and C. M. Bogert. 1954. The systematic postition of Lanthanotus and the affinities of the anguinomorphan lizards. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 105(1):1-142
scientific
Anguoidea
Ref.: R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution
scientific
Diploglossa
Cope, 1864
Ref.: R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution
J. Klembara, 2018 - New material of Ophisaurus, Anguis and Pseudopus (Squamata, Anguidae, Anguinae) from the Miocene of the Czech Republic and Germany and systematic revision and palaeobiogeography of the Cenozoic Anguinae - Geological Magazine (155), 20-44 (journal article, English)
R. M. Sullivan, 2018 - Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis, a new generic name for "Placosaurus"mongoliensis (Anguidae, Glyptosaurinae) from the Shara Murun Formation, NeiMongol (Inner Mongolia), China - New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin (79), 691-694 (journal article, English)
A. Čerňanský, 2018 - The first record of amphisbaenian and anguimorph lizards (Reptilia, Squamata) from the upper Miocene Solnechnodolsk locality in Russia - Historical Biology (), - (journal article, English)
A. Čerňanský, 2017 - A skeleton of Ophisaurus (Squamata: Anguidae) from the middle Miocene of Germany, with a revision of the partly articulated postcranial material from Slovakia using micro-computed tomography - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (), e1333- (journal article, English)
A. Cernansky, 2016 - The new rare record of the late Oligocene lizards and amphisbaenians from Germany and its impact on our knowledge of the European terminal Palaeogene - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (), 1-29 (journal article, English)
J. Klembara, 2015 - New finds of anguines (Squamata, Anguidae) from the Early Miocene of Northwest Bohemia (Czech Republic) - Palaeontologische Zeitschrift (89), 171-195 (journal article, English)
R. L. Nydam, 2013 - Lizards and snakes from the Cenomanian through Campanian of Southern Utah: filling the gap in the fossil record of Squamata from the Late Cretaceous of the Western Interior of North America - At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah (), 370-423 (book chapter, English)
K. T. Smith, 2013 - Early Eocene lizards of the Wasatch Formation near Bitter Creek, Wyoming: diversity and paleoenvironment during an interval of global warming - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History (54), 135-230 (journal article, English)
B. Hugues-Alexandre, 2013 - Amphibians and Squamate Reptiles from the Late Miocene (Vallesian) of Eastern Morocco (GuefaIT-1, Jerada Province) - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (33), 804-816 (journal article, English)
J. Klembara, 2012 - A new species of Pseudopus (Squamata, Anguidae) from the early Miocene of Northwest Bohemia (Czech Republic) - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (32), 854-866 (journal article, English)
S. Bailon, 2012 - Un nouveau genre, Ragesaurus (Squamata, Anguidae, Anguinae), du Pléistocène inférieur des îles Medas (Catalogne, Espagne) - Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France (183), 683-688 (journal article, French)
R. M. Sullivan, 2012 - A new glyptosaurine lizard from the earliest Eocene of Dormaal, Belgium - Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France (183), 627-633 (journal article, English)
N. R. Longrich, 2012 - Mass extinction of lizards and snakes at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (109), 21396-21401 (journal article, English)
K. T. Smith, 2011 - The long-term history of dispersal among lizards in the early Eocene: new evidence from a microvertebrate assemblage in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, USA - Palaeontology (54), 1243-1270 (journal article, English)
J. Klembara, 2010 - Revision of the anguine lizard Pseudopus laurillardi (Squamata, Anguidae) from the Miocene of Europe, with comments on paleoecology - Journal of Paleontology (84), 159-196 (journal article, English)
J. Klembara, 2010 - Anguimorph lizards (Squamata, Anguimorpha) from the middle and late Eocene of the Hampshire Basin of southern England - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (8), 97-129 (journal article, English)
K. T. Smith, 2009 - A new lizard assemblage from the earliest Eocene (zone Wa0) of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA: biogeography during the warmest interval of the Cenozoic - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (7), 299-358 (journal article, English)
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M. Venczel, 2006 - Lizards from the Late Miocene of Polgárdi (W-Hungary) - Nymphaea, Folia naturae Bihariae (33), 25-38 (journal article, English)
R. M. Sullivan, 2006 - Redescription of the holotype of Placosaurus rugosus gervais 1848–1852 (Squamata, Anguidae, Glyptosaurinae) from the Eocene of France and a revision of the genus - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (26), 127-132 (journal article, English)
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M. Auge, 2006 - A new genus, Paraplacosauriops (Squamata, Anguidae, Glyptosaurinae), from the Eocene of France - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (26), 133-137 (journal article, English)
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R. E. Weems, 1999 - Part 5. Reptile remains from the Fisher/Sullivan site - Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication (152), 101-121 (, )
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R. M. Sullivan, 1991 - Paleocene Caudata and Squamata from Gidley and Silberling quarries, Montana - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (11), 293-301 (journal article, English)
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R. M. Sullivan, 1987 - Parophisaurus pawneensis (Gilmore, 1928) new genus of anguid lizard from the middle Oligocene of North America - Journal of Herpetology (21), 115-133 (journal article, English)
R. M. Sullivan, 1986 - A new fossil anguid lizard Parodaxosaurus sanjuanensis, new genus, new species from the middle Paleocene (Torrejonian) Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico - Journal of Herpetology (20), 109-111 (journal article, English)
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J. Klembara, 1979 - Neue Funde der Gattungen Ophisaurus und Anguis (Squamata, Reptilia) aus dem Untermiozän Westböhmens (CSSR) - Vestnik Ústredniho ustavu geologického (54), 163-169 (journal article, German)
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