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==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> In 2001, the Vieux Collinges material, consisting of over 300 vertebrae and a [[palatine bone]], was illustrated and redescribed in detail by Martin Ivanov, though he believed the incompleteness of the skull made it impossible to identify this material to the species level, and identified it only as a member of the genus ''Python''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ivanov |first=Martin |date=2000 |title=Snakes of the lower/middle Miocene transition at Vieux Collonges (Rhône, France), with comments on the colonisation of western Europe by colubroids |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228367304 |journal=Geodiversitas |language=en |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=559–588 |s2cid=126907224}}</ref>

==References==