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Falseryx ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4819491	https://www.gbif.org/species/4819491
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	72161	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=72161

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Tropidophiidae : Falseryx

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Boidae : Falseryx

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Lepidosauromorpha
superorder	Lepidosauria
order	Squamata	Oppel 1811
suborder	Ophidia
-	Serpentes
infraorder	Alethinophidia	Nopcsa 1923
-	Macrostomata	Ritgen 1828
superfamily	Booidea	Gray 1825
family	Boidae	Gray 1825
subfamily	Tropidophiinae	Cope 1894
genus	Falseryx	Szyndlar & Rage 2003

Scientific Name

Falseryx Szyndlar & Rage, 2003

Name Published In

Non-erycine Booidea from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe. Polsih Academy of Sciences Krakow

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Falseryx	genus	belongs to Tropidophiinae	stated with evidence	Szyndlar et al., 2008
Falseryx	genus	belongs to Tropidophiinae	implied	Cernansky et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Last Recorded Appearance

12.8 - 11.1 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Tropidophiinae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Tropidophiinae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Tropidophiinae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

Z. Szyndlar and J.-C. Rage. 2003. Non-erycine Booidea from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe.

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Falseryx neervelpensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Falseryx petersbuchi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	16.9 Ma Miocene	16.9 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2003	Falseryx Szyndlar and Rage p. 59
2008	Falseryx Szyndlar et al. p. 394
2015	Falseryx Cernansky et al. p. 114

References

Szyndlar Z., Rage J.-C. (2003) Non-erycine Booidea from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe, 1-109

Szyndlar Z., Smith R., et al (2008) A new dwarf boa (Serpentes, Booidea, 'Tropidophiidae') from the Early Oligocene of Belgium: a case of the isolation of Western European snake faunas, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152 2, 393-406

Cernansky A., Rage J. C., et al (2015) The Early Miocene squamates of Amöneburg (Germany): the first stages of modern squamates in Europe, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13 2, 97-128 doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.897266

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Non-erycine Booidea from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe. Polsih Academy of Sciences Krakow - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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