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Nidophis Temporal range: Maastrichtian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Nidophis insularis vertebrae (scale bar 1 mm)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	†Madtsoiidae
Genus:	†Nidophis Vasile et al., 2013
Species:	†N. insularis
Binomial name
†Nidophis insularis Vasile et al., 2013

Nidophis is an extinct genus of Madtsoiid snake that inhabited on Hațeg island in what is now Romania. It was a small snake measuring 1 metre (3.3 ft) long.

References

1. "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
2. Ştefan Vasile; Zoltán Csiki-Sava; Márton Venczel (September 2013). "A new madtsoiid snake from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, western Romania". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (5): 1100–1119. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.764882. ISSN 0272-4634. Wikidata Q29997837.
3. "Nidophis". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
4. Venczel, Márton; Vasile, Ştefan; Csiki-Sava, Zoltán (2015). "A Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake from Romania associated with a megaloolithid egg nest – Paleoecological inferences". Cretaceous Research. 55: 152–163. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.02.009.

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