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'''''Python europaeus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[Python (genus)|python]] species. It lived during the early/middle [[miocene]]. The [[holotype]] is a single trunk [[vertebra]] found in France.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Schleip W. |author2=O'Shea M. |year=2010 |title=Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution |journal=ZooKeys |issue=66 |pages=29–79 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.66.683 |pmid=21594030 |pmc=3088416|doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Discovery and naming==
Fossilized remains of ''Python europaeus'' were first reported in 1958 by French herpetologist [[Robert Hoffstetter]], decades before the species was named, who published that python fossils had been found in the localities of [[Pontlevoy|Pont-Levoy]], [[La Grive-Saint-Alban]] and Mont Ceindre (now known as Vieux Collonges) in [[France]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hoffstetter |first=Robert |date=1958 |title=Les Squamates (Sauriens et Serpents) du Miocène français |url=https://eurekamag.com/research/022/946/022946851.php |journal=Compte Rendu du 83 Congres des Societes savantes de Paris et des Départements |pages=195–200}}</ref> The material from Vieux Collonges would be mentioned in later works published in during the 1970s and 1980s, which refer to the material as an unnamed species of ''[[Python (genus)|Python]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=R |first=Hoffstetter |last2=J-C |first2=Rage |date=1972 |title=Les Erycinae fossiles de france (Serpentes, Boidae) comprehension et histoire de la sous-famille. |url=https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/en/detail?JGLOBAL_ID=201602020483127330 |journal=Annales de Paléontologie (Vertébrés) |language=en |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=81–129}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Thomas |first=H. |last2=Sen |first2=S. |last3=Khan |first3=M. |last4=Battail |first4=B. |last5=Ligabue |first5=G. |date=1982 |title=The Lower Miocene Fauna of Al-Sarrar (Eastern province, Saudi Arabia) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285372320 |journal=Atlal (Journal of Saudi Arabian Archaeology) |volume=5 |pages=109–136}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Demarcq |first=Gerard |last2=Ballesio |first2=Rolland |last3=Rage |first3=Jean-Claude |last4=Guerin |first4=Claude |last5=Mein |first5=Pierre |last6=Meon |first6=Henriette |date=1983-07-01 |title=Donnees paleoclimatiques du neogene de la Vallee du Rhone (France) |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0031018283900251 |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=247–272 |doi=10.1016/0031-0182(83)90025-1 |issn=0031-0182}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Snakes: ecology and evolutionary biology |date=1987 |publisher=Blackburn Press |isbn=978-1-930665-15-6 |editor-last=Seigel |editor-first=Richard A. |___location=Caldwell, N.J |pages=51–76 |chapter=Fossil history |editor-last2=Collins |editor-first2=Joseph T. |editor-last3=Novak |editor-first3=Susan S.}}</ref>
==References==
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