Bipedidae
| Bipedidae Temporal range: Early Eocene – Present,
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| Mexican mole lizard (Bipes biporus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | Amphisbaenia |
| Family: | Bipedidae Taylor, 1951 |
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Bipedidae is a family of amphisbaenians that includes the extant genus Bipes represented by three species from Mexico and the extinct genus Anniealexandria represented by one species that lived in what is now Wyoming during the earliest Eocene around 55 million years ago. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that Bipedidae is most closely related to the family Blanidae, which includes the living genus Blanus[1].[2]
References[]
- ^ Pough, F. Harvey (2016). Herpetology (Fourth ed.). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates Inc. pp. 134–135.
- ^ Longrich, N. R.; Vinther, J.; Pyron, R. A.; Pisani, D.; Gauthier, J. A. (2015). "Biogeography of worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) driven by end-Cretaceous mass extinction". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282 (1806): 20143034. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.3034. PMC 4426617. PMID 25833855.
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- Taxa named by Edward Harrison Taylor
- Extant Eocene first appearances
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