{{Short description|Extinct family of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Cenomanian, {{fossilrange|99.6|93.5}} | image = Eupodophis.JPG | image_caption = Fossil of ''Eupodophis descouensi'' from the Museo di Storia Naturale, Milano | taxon = Simoliophiidae | authority = Nopsca, 1925 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Simoliophis'' <small>Sauvage, 1880 (type)</small> * ''Eupodophis'' <small>Rage ''et al.'', 2000</small> * ''Haasiophis'' <small>Tchernov ''et al.'', 2000</small> * ''Mesophis'' <small>Bolkay, 1925</small> * ''Pachyophis'' <small>Nopcsa, 1923</small> * ''Pachyrhachis'' <small>Haas, 1979</small> |synonyms = * '''Pachyophidae''' <small>Nopcsa, 1923</small> * '''Pachyophiidae''' <small>(Nopcsa, 1923)</small> * '''Pachyrhachidae''' <small>Haas, 1979</small> }}
'''Simoliophiidae''' is an extinct family of limbed Tethyan marine snakes of the order Squamata.<ref name="phylo2014">{{cite journal|last1=Hsiang|first1=Allison Y|last2=Field|first2=Daniel J|last3=Webster|first3=Timothy H|last4=Behlke|first4=Adam DB|last5=Davis|first5=Matthew B|last6=Racicot|first6=Rachel A|last7=Gauthier|first7=Jacques A|title=The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record|journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology|date=20 May 2015|volume=15|issue=1|pages=87|doi=10.1186/s12862-015-0358-5 |pmc=4438441|pmid=25989795 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="TPBDBPachyophiidae">[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=65331 The Paleobiology Database Pachyophiidae entry]</ref><ref name="Lee1999"> {{cite journal | last1 = Lee | first1 = M. S. Y. | last2 = Caldwell | first2 = M. W. | last3 = Scanlon | first3 = J. D. | year = 1999 | title = A second primitive marine snake: ''Pachyophis woodwardi'' from the Cretaceous of Bosnia-Herzegovina | journal = Journal of Zoology, London | volume = 248 | issue = 4| pages = 509–520 | doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb01050.x}}</ref> The name '''Pachyophiidae''' has also been used for this group,<ref name="TPBDBPachyophiidae"/><ref name="Lee1999"/> but Simoliophiidae has priority.
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Category:Prehistoric snakes Category:Marine reptiles Category:Alethinophidia †
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