Diablophis: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|PrimitiveExtinct Snakegenus fromof the Jurassic period.snake}}

| authority = Caldwell et al., 2015<ref name="caldwell2015"/>

| type_species_authority = (Evans, 1996)

|''Parviraptor gilmorei'' <br /><small>[[Susan E. Evans|Evans]], 1996</small><ref name="evans1996"/>

'''''Diablophis''''' is a genus of Late Jurassic stem-snake from the [[Morrison Formation]] of North America. The type and only species, ''D. gilmorei'' was once thought to be a species of ''[[Parviraptor]]''<ref name="evans1996">{{cite journal |author=Evans, S.E. |year=1996 |title=''Parviraptor'' (Squamata: Anguimorpha) and Otherother Lizardslizards from the Morrison Formation at Fruita, Colorado |journal=The Continental Jurassic |volume=60 |pages=243-248243–248}}</ref> but is now classified as its own genus.<ref name="caldwell2015">{{cite journal |author1=Caldwell, M.W. |author2=Nydam, R.L. |author3=Palci, A |author4=Apesteguía, S |year=2015 |title=The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution |journal=Nature Communications |volume=6 |pagespage=1-115996 |doi=10.1038/ncomms6996|doi-access=free |hdl=11336/37995 |hdl-access=free }} </ref> The animal is known from multiple specimens, the [[holotype]] being '''LACM 4684/140572''', which consists of a broken right mandible, broken right maxilla and broken axis vertebrae. A number of other specimens have also been attributed to ''Diablophis'', including LACM 4684/140572 and LACM 5572/120732, the specimens previously attributed to ''Parviraptor'' and LACM 4684/120472.<ref name="caldwell2015" />

''Diablophis'' has been recovered as a basal snake, though this placement is not undisputeddisputed. The cladogram from figure 4b in Caldwell et al.'s 2015 study is replicated below.<ref name="caldwell2015" />

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