''Eophis'' is an early genus of stem-snake (clade
Ophidia)
containing one species, ''Eophis underwoodi'', from the
Middle Jurassic
The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from about 174.1 to 163.5 million years ago. Fossils of land-dwelling animals, such as dinosaurs, from the Middle Jurassic are relatively rare, but geological formations co ...
(Bathonian) from the
Forest Marble Formation of United Kingdom. It is known from a fragmentary dentary from
Kirtlington Quarry. It was previously interpreted as an
anguimorph lizard. The placement of ''Eophis'' as a stem snake was re-affirmed by subsequent analyses.
Phylogeny
Cladogram based in the phylogenetic analysis by Caldwell ''et al.'' (2015):
See also
References
Prehistoric reptile genera
Middle Jurassic reptiles of Europe
Fossil taxa described in 2015
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