Kingdom Animalia Clade Ophidia Rank Genus | Class Reptilia Phylum Chordata Order Scaled reptiles | |
Similar Paramacellodus, Scaled reptiles, Jucaraseps, Ardeosaurus | ||
Parviraptor was a genus of stem-snake (clade Ophidia) containing one species, Parviraptor estesi, from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) or Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset, England. A second species, Parviraptor gilmorei, was described from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of Western North America; it was present in stratigraphic zone 4. However, the second species was subsequently transferred to a separate genus Diablophis.
Phylogeny
Cladogram based in the phylogenetic analysis by Caldwell et al. (2015):
References
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